First and foremost the end of slavery freed the African-Americans who had been restrained for so long. This meant a new found freedom for them and during the period of reconstruction, some 2000 African-Americans held government jobs. However life in the years after slavery also proved to be difficult. Although slavery was over, the brutality of white rice prejudiced persisted.
Scientific ideas from the scientific revolution and political ideas from the enlightenment led to a period of social upheaval and b) violent change
The main point of the excerpt is that readers should be aware of the damage that the war has done to a generation of men who were impacted by it, and read the book with this idea in mind.
The epigraph wants to make sure that readers who approach this book do it with the same purpose as the one with which the author wrote it. He does not want the readers to think of this book as an accusation, a confession or an adventure.
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Africa is abundant with natural resources, including diamonds, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, platinum, copper, cobalt, iron, bauxite and cocoa beans.
