You are correct England ended slavery before we did and did not have to fight a war to do it, thanks to William Wilberforce. They also were substantially responsible via the slave trade for slavery becoming as widespread here as it did. But the Republican Party was formed as an anti-slavery party, though it is true they did not commit to complete abolition prior to the war. Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president. His election and he and his party's anti-slavery views precipitated the South's succession and the Civil War. And lots of white men fighting for the North did die for the cause of abolition, or are you denying that and taking the black racist view that to be white is to be defacto racist? My great grandfather fought for the North and was fortunate not to die because of it. Your denial of the sacrifice made by my ancestor and many whites for the eventual freedom of blacks is shameful, as is your inference racism applies to all who voted for Trump.