Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered The Americas after taking 4 trips across the Atlantic Ocean. He tried to find a route from Europe to Asia.
Douglass portrays the slave traders and agents for slave traders as men auctioning for cattle instead of human beings. The slave traders and agents for slave traders at no point stop to think what they are doing is wrong, instead, it is business as usual and they are eager to acquire misbehaved slaves at steep discounts, much the same as farmers will bid pennies on the dollar for underweight farm animals.
Black american were given the right to vote on Feb 3, 1870
The goal was to end segregation in public education
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