The end of slavery in the United States was achieved by killing enough people who politically supported slavery in a war, that they surrendered and accepted the

The end of slavery in the United States was achieved by killing enough people who politically supported slavery in a war, that they surrendered and accepted the _de jure_ end of slavery. However, they then spent a century in a a low intensity conflict / rebellion (Reconstruction, Jim Crow, etc) against it, with significant success (unfortunately). Democracy is not the cure all that you make it out to be.