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- Oct 2024
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pulitzercenter.org pulitzercenter.org
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Enslavers and thecourts did not honor kinship ties tomothers, siblings, cousins. In mostcourts, they had no legal standing.Enslavers could rape or murder their
This shows that people don't like slaves so much that they don't want them to have a family and they can do anything to their slaves like they own the slaves which is very cruel.
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Hundreds of black veterans werebeaten, maimed, shot and lynched.
This just shows the amount of hate for people with a darker skin color which is just completely un human.
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Despite the guarantees of equal-ity in the 14th Amendment, theSupreme Court’s landmark Plessy v.Ferguson decision in 1896 declaredthat the racial segregation of blackAmericans was constitutional.
Even though slavery ended this quote is explaining that the effects of slavery was racism which was never ending or it would take a very long time to end.
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They had no claim to their own chil-dren, who could be bought, sold andtraded away from them on auctionblocks alongside furniture and cattleor behind storefronts that advertised‘‘Negroes for Sale.’
This quote shows how the African slaves were treated especially with their children which were separated away from them and sold to other people to work or one day become another slave and those kids would not know anything about them or their families.
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