Quote Originally Posted by GreatWyrmGold View Post
My bad. There's no indication that legal slavery existed during the Empire. Given that illegal slavery is a thing even in the US, I'd still call that a win for the Empire...
It depends on the extent to which illegal slavery is tacitly tolerated by the government that banned it. In the Reconstruction South, it was never technically legal after emancipation to murder black people (or white civil rights activists.) That being said, the local authorities did little to nothing to investigate such murders, and often remained willfully blind as they arrested blacks and/or civil rights activists only to release them without charge at 2 a.m. into the waiting lynch mob.

By that metric, the fact that no legal murders occurred in the South is something you'd call a win for Jim Crow.