Background on the Social and Political Situation
It is very ironic that a country known for its advocacy on liberty, promotion of the ideals of democracy and protection of the sacredness of human rights had at one point in its history tolerated racial discrimination. It is sad because going back further in this history, United States once accepted institutional slavery as a way of life. In fact, slavery had become so accepted that a person’s social standing then was measured in terms of the number of African-American slaves each family had. The more slaves a person had, the higher a person’s status is in the society.
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