The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened to those people who suddenly disappeared.
There were concerns over the state representation which led to a bicameral legislature. The upper house was based off equal state votes and the lower house was based on population
The communists used the trial to recruit southern blacks and northern liberals. The south only treated the communist with a slight bit more respect than blacks.