There are more forms of slavery than ownership. The negroes may have
gotten their freedom from ownership, but in its place, they got
underpaid work- if they could get any at all, they had to live in
slums or shacks, they were not offered any form of education, they
were abused, isolated and sent to prison for white men's crimes.
The whip was still there, but it took a different form. They were
free but there freedom was on the lowest rung of the ladder of white
society and were kept there for many years after the Civil War freed
them. Only when the lady sat on the bus (sorry but I cant, but
should remember her name) did she truly stand up for freedom and say,
I am equal. I am free to sit wherever the hell I like.
