Since the Union’s effort to stay together and the struggle of the Southern state’s secession were the beginning of a stage of changes for slaves. As a consequence of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared Emancipation Proclamation which gave freedom to slaves and with time the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment gave African Americans the rights of every U.S citizen. While the plantation owners in the upper south were kind, let slaves work and have wages to earn money to buy their freedom and have a more comfortable life, the lower south slaves were living with terrible conditions, poorly fed, and ill cared with high levels of discrimination. Generally the attitude of southern citizens was selfish and apprehensive with slaves, they believed that their life system could not be changed and was the best option.
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Later, in 1869 the Congress declared the Fifteenth Amendment which gave African Americans the right to vote. Unfortunately, it existed a racist system based on the segregation named Jim Crow; it consisted in separate blacks and whites in all the activities and places. In addition, the Supreme Court named it “separate but equal”, black people could participate in the same activities but separate from whites, they were like the second social class. Likewise, an important feature that marked this movement was the posters clarifying “white People” and “colored
Later, in 1869 the Congress declared the Fifteenth Amendment which gave African Americans the right to vote. Unfortunately, it existed a racist system based on the segregation named Jim Crow; it consisted in separate blacks and whites in all the activities and places. In addition, the Supreme Court named it “separate but equal”, black people could participate in the same activities but separate from whites, they were like the second social class. Likewise, an important feature that marked this movement was the posters clarifying “white People” and “colored