The legacies of slavery and Jim Crow

Almost every Western nation practiced slavery to some degree, but with the new philosophies of the 1800s and abolition of slavery, the long journey towards racial equality began. In the United States, however, this goal was to be put on hold for almost a century, when an official policy of racial segregation was gradually adopted, [...]

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