<span>After the civil war many states passed Jim Crow laws intended to counteract constitutional amendments that granted former slaves B. citizenship and voting rights.
Many people were still very racist at the time and didn't consider black people to be eligible to have these rights.
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No, Lyman Beecher did not write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The first slaves were brought to Jamestown in the Virginia colony in 1619. Slaves were brought to work in the tobacco fields.
