Also, the United States was about 30+ years late to abolishing slavery, if you want to find the source of the abolitionist movement, it was not America. UK, and most of Europe had outlawed it MANY years before we did, well before we brought it to the courts.
UK abolished slavery in 1833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
US abolished slavery in 1865 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slavery-abolished-in-america
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England as a country effecitvely outlawed slavery in 1772 with somerset vs. stewart.
the UK abolition act was merely a formalization of policy set many years earlier in the somerset ruling (1772) and the slave trade act (1808).