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Monarchy does not prevent enslavement. In fact, serfdom is a relatively common feature of monarchy. That’s what those two things have to do with each other.

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The UK, under a monarch, abolished slavery and set the Royal Navy to blockade slave ships.

Meanwhile, the USofA pre civil war under a President with no offical monarch (other than the Little King for a term arrangement) had extensive slave plantations.

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The UK abolished slavery by an act of parliament. A parliamentary monarchy is a historical quirk that does not need the monarchy to function.

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There’s no serfdom anywhere in the world currently. There are plenty of monarchies in the world.

Meanwhile, currently, slavery is far more common in non-monarchies than monarchies.

Your “relatively common” is literally zero in the current reality, unless there’s countries you’re aware of that the rest of us aren’t.

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> There’s no serfdom anywhere in the world currently.

Tell that to guest workers in Saudi Arabia. Or to people in North Korea.

> There are plenty of monarchies in the world.

There are very few _real_ monarchies where the monarch has absolute power, with hereditary power transfer: Saudi Arabia, Oman, North Korea.

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Relatively common in history.