Not sure 600,000 lives was worth it. Not sure it was worth it today, seeing how we got the BLM philosophy running rampant now. In think Monroe had the right idea. (Liberia)
Slavery was a moral stain of ultimate injustice. No man should ever be kept in thrall to another. And the suggestion that black people 150 years ago should have remained slaves because of the BLM a*holes now is the epitome of judging human beings by the color of their skin, and is tracks the same train of race-based thought as the progressive cretins who argue for reparations.
For me, the 600,000 who died are the reparations. Slavery was a horrible evil that deserved to end. Whatever debt was owed for those hundreds of years of slavery was paid for in blood.