Governments of all the countries, including the United States of America, have five purposes. They are defense, national identity, representation, social welfare, and infrastructure. A government, basically, has three branches - the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.
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In many cases, slaves were promised freedom in exchange for service.
They did not share the same goals on Reconstruction
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They had different ideas of reconstructions.
Most disturbing and horrific would probably be the way that workers could be mutilated by the machines or by human error and nobody would care about that. They would have to keep working without fingers or hands because not working would mean the end of their families. The injuries sometimes didn't have to be mutilation but were still severe.