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The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
Explanation:
This question can have many answers but ill try to answer it in the north slaves werent profitable so most northerners didnt have slaves and eventually slavery was seen as morally wrong in the north so in the south once abraham lincoln became president the south became its own coutry and the civil war began so after the north won slavery was abolished in the south.
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