Reconstruction

In the seventeen hundreds, British colonists living in the New World rose up against their government in a war that would set an American precedent and found the country upon the basis of freedom, a principle which would continue well into its future. Yet America was flawed from its construction. It has been said that slavery was the country’s first sin, written into law by a constitution which considered an enslaved person to be nothing more than property and, for the benefit of their white oppressors in a representative standard,…