Olaudah Equiano, a former slave turned author.
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The 14th Amendment was issued around the <em>Reconstruction period</em>, basically to provide equal rights to slave descendants after the Civil War, granting <em>citizenship to all people</em> born or naturalized in the country, and it has become kind of the main provision in the USA Constitution to enforce Civil Rights and prevent violations; but it was only until the <em>Civil Rights Era</em> around the 1950s and 1960s that really became effective; affairs such as <em>"Jim Crow laws"</em>, <em>white supremacy</em> organizations, multiple segregation policies, voter suppression mechanisms such as <em>"The white primries"</em>, poll taxes and some others like <em>literacy tests</em> vastly impeded the effectiveness of the Amandment for a long time.
D is the closest. It is the opposing argument. <span />
Becuase of their skin color Afircan Americans were taken over and made into slaves. A long time later they were freed; however, they still experienced racism. Because of that, Afircan Americans lived under discrimination for many years until being sort-of excepted. Afircan Americans are still experiencing discrimination, but the severity has decreased majorly.
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