The end of slavery marks the rise of a secularized Black American culture; a transition whereby secularization found the Black community creating its own social systems. Nevertheless, these systems were created in an atmosphere that falsely blamed Black Americans as the cause of our bloodiest war to date, the Civil War. Did retribution have anything to do with the fact that segregated cemeteries refused to bury our dead?

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