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The world would likely be a MUCH worse place.I seriously wish that at the end of the civil war all the slaves were emancipated and given transport north and then the Union said "Congratulations on you succession! Now go **** off." Then the U.S. leaves the confederacy to it's own misery without the economic benefit of slave labor. Other than New Orleans I can't think of a redeeming place in the southern U.S.. I'd be happier if they were not part of my country.
First, the US Civil War wasn't fought to free the slaves. That was a messaging pivot made following the Trent Affair to keep England out of the war. The US Civil War was fought to keep the south from seceding.
Second, the US ended up being the most powerful country in the world following WWI and WWII due to being mostly unscathed at a time when the rest of the world's industrial base and financial centers were rubble. That doesn't happen if the outcome of the UC Civil War was secession because the north and the south would have ended up on opposite sides causing the war on this side of the Atlantic.
World War One could have gone the other direction if the US didn't jump in when they did. If not for the US being what it was in 1940, there would have been no one to stop Imperial Japan from taking the areas of iron, rubber, and oil resources to become a superpower. If not for the US being the world's dominant superpower following WWII, there would have been no Pax Americana during the time the world developed atomic, and then nuclear, weapons.
Abraham Lincoln may have saved the entire world.