Remember how there was that big row back in the 1850s where the bottom half of America got so mad about not being able to do slavery that they split off # *to make their own country? And then when they were forced to come back, they got real pissy about having treat non-white people as equals? And a bunch of people started running around in white cloaks doing terrorism on African Americans for one reason or other?

Thats the kkk

They also worked with local judges to get black people arrested for stupid reasons, because the constitutional amendment that banned slavery had an exception for if it was punishment for a crime. So they actually kept doing slavery anyway until the 1940s when FDR put a stop to it because he didn’t want Japan using that to smear the USA during WW2