Author Michael Johnson approaches the issue more on a level of racism. Although blacks could have land, it had to be certain land, away from the white population. They now were allowed to be paid for jobs, but those involved contracts. If those contract

s were violated in any way, they not only would forfeit their wages, but were hunted down like animals with a reward on their head. Organizations like the KKK, who were seemingly beyond the law, persecuted the black man. Each city kept an accurate count of the blacks under their control and reported this number to their state governments. This was just another means of control. Were the slaves really in a much better position?

Author Anders Stephanson approached the subject as one of scientific explanation for the division in social classes. The white men were superior, and therefore the black man being of lower social class, should not be expected to have equal privileges. Physiologically, the skulls of black men were more closely related to that of earlier a

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