(Boskin, 1976)
Thus the civil war and the later inclusion of the courts and rulings though have given succor to the colored people, the conditions in Virginia of the earlier century was found all over the United States even after a hundred years and hence Martin Luther King had to in the 1960s come out again to fight for equality. Is the struggle over?
Conclusion
On perusing the materials and analysis one thing is clear. Earlier the colonists were interested in establishing colonies for which they required free labor which was not forthcoming from the native Indians whom they killed in wart. Hence they imported humans from Africa and the earlier colonists treated the workers as slaves. Racial bigotry seems to have swept the country when the new democracy wanted to assure equality to all. Unfortunately the civil war was merely to maintain the status quo while it is clothed...
There were racists then and there were the same factions in the 1900s and it continues underneath the cloak of culture today.
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