On the Fact that Even Though They Harbored Many More Slaves than the United States and Treated Them Exponentially Worse, Brazil Was Able to Get Rid of this Institution with Minimal Bloodshed (Ditto, Every Other Country Except for Haiti)

I guess that it (war and bloodshed) just wasn't in "God's plan" (the bogus justification that Lincoln concocted as the body-count rose).