Slavery in Black and White Study Guide Documentary

I am not saying America is still a slaveholding society or that society has not changed since slavery. It has changed but there are also lingering effects of slavery that continue to affect this country as a whole and African Americans in particular. There is a difficult and long transition from enslavement to freedom to justice and healing and lastly true prosperity and the transition is still in process. Freedom has to be real, not pseudo-freedom like African Americans experienced after the Civil War. Freedom comes with legal rights and protections and equal access to social and material resources.

The history shows that African Americans have been on a cyclical journey and process, of intergenerational progress and regress.