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Full blown de jure chattel slavery? Yes, I would be surprised.
Slavery didn't end because people realized it was bad. They always knew that. It ended because of the industrial revolution.
frantically flips through high-school history book
The industrial revolution gave the common person more power and leverage over those that governed them.
The common person knew the evils of slavery. It is covered in the bible and the least educated would still have some knowledge of the bible. Many religious people in slave states started arguing that slavery was just and the right order of things but this was a newer idea.
Slavery impacted the commoner as it pushes labour prices down. So even without the moral argument there was a economic one.
Slavery hasn't ended. American slave plantations did, but slavery didn't. There are more slaves now than ever. We could end it but cheap consumer goods keeps it going.
The Bible condones slavery. And many slave holders invoked the Bible to justify slavery.
From Frederick Douglas' first autobiography:
Which dovetails well with the famous quote from C. S. Lewis:
A lot of Christian slaveowners "justified" themselves as helping their slaves by "saving" them, or whatever. White man's burden and all that rot.