Slavery in the United States of America lasted for about 300 years. 300 years of mistreatment, injustice and exploitation of innocent human beings who were considered inferior. Like if this was not enough, the nation sank into another dark period of 130 years of discrimination and segregation under what was called as Jim Crow. Slavery’s consequences still stir up emotions in the two races, the whites that committed the atrocities and the blacks that had been committed against them. Issues and debates about slavery are still prominent. In terms of the historical backgrounds that shaped the phases of slavery, its abolition and aftermath and the period of Jim Crow laws, both the American and the international bibliography are full of different
