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And then came Jim Crow. More exploitation of blacks for white profit. Slavery did not end in 1865. Convict leasing took its place and blacks were jailed for basically nothing and forced to do labor. That didn't stop until the 1940's.Slavery benefitted the south, the north, France and Britain, until the Civil War swept it all away leaving the south destroyed and the north deeply in debt.