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This 3 page paper reviews key changes in black rights during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the US Constitution was premised on equality, blacks were never truly equal in eighteenth century US society. Even when they were free, blacks were regarded as inferior to whites
and suffered many injustices because of that view. The most blatant injustice, of course, was slavery itself. Over time, however, blacks began to gain footing in our society.
Far from being above social conditions, the Supreme Court and the Constitution reflected the social conditions in an evolving manner through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With the now
infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) the Supreme Court formally decreed that slaves were the property of their white owners. They were not citizens of the US and thus
were not entitled to any benefits of citizenship. At the end of the Civil War, of course, one of the most blatant forms of racial inequality, slavery, was abolished with
Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation. Although slavery was abolished, however, the country had a long road ahead of it in achieving true equality between blacks and whites. Although the
13th Amendment was ratified in December of 1865, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" was not immediately upheld. The issue of Negro rights was to take the forefront in Reconstruction.
The various states began to pass what was called "black codes" as well as numerous other controversial requirements. "Black codes" were quite controversial and often were associated
with outright violence against blacks. Black codes allowed such things as requiring one year contracts from any black who was given a job, imprisonment of unemployed blacks and the
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