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I'm asking you where it gave rise to people being seen as equal and created a general acceptance of those people. Go ahead and find an example of that. Forcing people to behave in the way you want and them doing so on their own free will are not equal.
The problem was that there was no guarantee that slavery would soon end. It was dying down previously, but the invention of the cotton gin led to its rise. And there is no guarantee that a more peaceful emancipation would have led to faster equality. Look at Jews in Europe at around the same time, they were emancipated from the ghetto, given some rights, had those rights taken away, wash, rinse, repeat until the Holocaust.