I would like to expound on this topic with you, but away from the thread derailment that can happen from the board trolls/race hustlers.

I maintain that slavery was more of an economic institution and would have ground to a halt on its own without the need for a bloody civil war. Why is that just about every other country that abandoned the practice did so without bloodshed?

Yes slavery was a cause of the Civil War, but it wasn't the ONLY reason that people decided to fight for the cause.