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...reeing their slaves, but in the south slavery was a major economic factor. North America abolish slave trade in 1808 one year after the British. In 1963 Abraham Lincoln saw the advantage of promising freedom for the southern slaves. In 1965 he therefore led the northern states in war against the southern states, which refused to free their slaves. The Northern states won the war and slavery was abolished in the whole America. For a hundred years after slavery ended, many states had laws that treated African Americans less favourable than the whites. Nearly every institution and government, including the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court, supported the idea that white people were more intellectual than black people. Therefore the schools for blacks were separated from whites because black people weren’t smart enou...