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.
C. people began to demand basic rights from the government
The Enlightenment was all about natural rights.
<span> Big time cause it ultimately put up a claim that Slavery was technically legal in the whole Nation even if a State had an Anti-Slavery law because it was said that if a Slave fled to a Free State then he was automatically Free</span>
