A: because blacks, even though being free, were still treated like slaves and some were even put into sharecropping to ensure they stayed poor
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Many things took place within a period of time between 1492 and 1520 that are quite questionable but with the intent of finding a complete opposite location, for the result Columbus had effects such as....
•The provoking of genocide
•The taking of land from which originally had indigenous people living there
•Now I personally don't know if Columbus in his life time claimed he discovered America but I do know a sci-fi and fantasy auther was the one with the idea to make this a common myth when really his 3 main voyages never even touched what is now American soil.
But in the end we as Americas wouldn't be here if it wasn't for his crude sense of exploration