Construction of African Americans
Life of African Americans in the period after the civil war was extremely difficult. The Congress promised to emancipate African Americans from slavery, but it appeared as if blacks were still deprived of their basic rights. ... In the nineteenth century African-Americans were not treated as people. ... In order to understand why it took a long time for the African Americans’ to be treated equal, we have to take a step back and look at the past to understand how they were constructed.