The first enslaved Africans came to America in 1619 before the Mayflower. That is 244 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. It was 87 years after the Declaration of Independence. It was after Americans fought a civil war about slavery.
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Since that time, we had a short lived reconstruction, which largely failed because the Southern whites objected to it 6,500 African Americans were victims of racial terror lynchings between 1865 and 1950 Voting rights act has significantly been weakened We can go on and on about how rosy things are
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