The Tentacles Of Slavery Hold On To Everything We Are

“Although the fight for the ending of slavery was won in 1865 with the culmination of the Civil War in the United States, and was only legally ended with the acceptance of the Thirteenth amendment to America's Constitution of the same year, the institution of slavery caused a residual effect which has lasted over a century. It can be seen with turbulent indoctrinations of the nation's 'Jim Crow' laws and The Civil Rights Movement to the push for Affirmative Action policies to the controversies surrounding election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American President,....”