Answer: It wasn't actually equal. Colored people were given things of less quality in public environments and were still being segregated.
N 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan<span>, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the </span>importance<span> of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.</span>
