1. Race Relations in America Blacks and Whites
Duration of Slavery: 246 years
Jamestown Virginia 1619
Civil War End: Thirteenth Amendment 1865

2. The Constitution of the United States of America & Black Slavery

3. The Preamble of The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of America.

4. From British Colonies into American United States
BRITISH COLONIES: SLAVERY & ANGLO SAXON RULE
RULING WHITE ELITE
From British Colonies into American United States
AMERICAN STATES: SLAVERY & ANGLO SAXON RULE
RULING WHITE ELITE

5. Distribution of political power between the White Male Elites.
Article I Section 2. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.

6. American Slave Trade Article I
Section 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding 10 dollars for each person.

7. Criminalization of Black Freedom Seekers
Article IV
Section 2. No person held to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therin, be discharged from such service of labour, but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.

8. (1787) Framers Belief: Political Rule by White male Property Owners

9. Race and Class Stratification 1860
1. Wealthy Whites
2. Middle Class Whites
RACE LINE
3. Poor Whites
4. Non-slave
Blacks
5. Black Slaves

10. Class, Occupation, and Education1
Large Owners
Business owners, lawyers, politicians
HS or college 2
Small owners
Farmers, skilled workers, teachers
HS, apprentice 3
Little property
Unskilled laborers
Elementary schooling 4
Few possessions
Lowest paid laborers
illiterate 5
No possessions
Slave laborers
forbidden

11. Constitutional Change toward Inclusion of Black People
Civil War Amendments
Abolishment of slavery
Citizenship rights and equal protection for Blacks
Protection of voting rights for Black men

12. Constitutional Change toward Inclusion of Women and Youth
Two Twentieth Century Amendments
Voting rights for women
Voting rights for youth (18 years old)

13. Duration of Government Enforced Segregation
Official Segregation Period: 103 Years
Abolition of Slavery 1865
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968

14. Illusion of Equality: Subtle Discrimination
Duration of Hidden Discrimination: (41 Years)
Residential Segregation: Racial Steering; Redlining
Double Standards:
Education & Job evaluation