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The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 was the initial step officially marking the ending of American slavery, but it also marked the beginning of an equally or more horrifying enslavement of the African mind, body, and spirit. Releasing thousands of slaves without any means of supporting themselves or their families, the governing white powers were able to institute an unofficial form of slavery that was meant to keep the African American community indebted to their white superiors, thereby, maintaining a façade of freedom and prosperity while simultaneously procreating and sustaining the premise of white supremacy. Despite the abolition of slavery, it was this ideal of white supremacy that stimulated the immobilization of African American social, economic, and political progress through the strict enforcement of the Jim Crow Laws— a set of laws lasting from 1877 to the 1960's meant to designate African Americans as second class citizens by subjecting......

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