13th Amendment History

For more than a century now the right of the African Americans have been taken away. Slavery in the Unites States dates back to the year 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia January 11, 1864, the 13th amendment was proposed by Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri if passed it would abolish all slavery in the United States. By April 8, 1864, the thirteenth amendment is approved on a vote of 38 to 6 where it was sent to be ratified. The thirteenth amendment was passed abolishing slavery. After 245 years of slavery, approximately 3.9 million slaves are freed by Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War ending in 1865. The African American thought this would be a new beginning but it was the complete opposite the southerner whites systematically rolled back
The white would use every little tactic to show the African Americans that they were inferior to them and discriminating against them was the number on way to show their hate toward them. Discrimination did not just happen outside in the streets but also inside the government which was meant to support every person. The police department was full of white who discriminated against black because of their race. One way the white showed this was how they segregated things like restaurants and hotels and stores so that the white could show how better their stores and restaurants were. The whites saw this as fair because they each are allowed to do the same thing just without having to eat or buy from the store together. “The thing to accomplish was, under the guise of giving equal accommodations for whites and blacks, to compel the latter to keep to themselves while travelling in railroad passenger coaches. No one would be so wanting in candor as to assert the contrary. The fundamental objection, therefore, to the statutes is that it interferes with the personal freedom of citizens....If a white man and a black man choose to occupy the same public conveyance on a public highway, it is their right to do so, and no government, proceeding alone on grounds of race, can prevent it without infringing the personal liberty of each” (Marlan, page 19). This show how the white people did not see
One way they achieved taking away rights from the African Americans was by segregation during this time there was no equal opportunity. During the Jim Crow Era the African Americans were the most affected because the white people created so many laws that prevented the African American from many thing. Example of it was the school education being bad also the government sided with the white population. Also during the Jim Crow Era the lynch mobs grew because whenever the white could not use the law to win against a black they would be made an example of by killing. Overall the whites fought back hard to show superiority over the African