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African Americans In The Video, Without Sanctuary
Most people believed that after emancipation, life became better for the blacks but their life became hell because there was racism, the freed slaves were beaten, lynched and had no place to run to for safety. I found out that the whites got in the way of reconstruction because of the violence they keep displaying. In the video, “Without Sanctuary”, reveals how the whites treats the blacks just because of their dark skin. I saw a lot of horrible things the black slaves experienced and I wonder how human beings can be so mean and yet they talk of problems experienced during reconstruction, they blame it on the blacks.
The textbooks portrays slavery as something that was not so mean especially in the south where they feel it was necessary for
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