Racial and social class issues plague United States throughout history, and these problems persisted after slavery. Since the beginning of the United States, African Americans faced forced deportation from their homeland, enslavement for over 200 years, restriction of rights, punishments to discourage hope, and laws that took away the fundamental rights. One of the earliest laws that restricted the liberties of African Americans was the legalization of slavery in the United in 1641, “The first legal code established by European colonists in New England, legalizes slavery.” With the establishment of slavery now legal in the United States, Africans, because this would be first generation slaves, became cemented as a lower class of humans in the
