please consider and address the following in a well-researched and sourced 5-6 page essay:
1 What role did slavery play in America's social contract, the U.S. Constitution? Please be specific in identifying where slavery appears in the document, but, most importantly, discuss the negotiations and compromises from the Constitutional Convention that explain why America chose to retain slavery when WE could have abolished it at our founding. Â
   (a) Please research and address the evolution of the term "white supremacy" from our founding to how the term is more
oadly used to explain an ingrained, often unconscious, bias of white Americans and how we view Black and other marginalized Americans.
   (b). Please research and address the terms "race" and "racism" and how they were/are politicized in America due to the practice of slavery.
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2 What role did slavery play in the American Civil War XXXXXXXXXX)? Specifically, please explore the roles of the President, Congress and the Judiciary during the civil war era and the post-civil war era. What role did each
anch play in perpetuating slavery or trying to abolish at this time? Â Look at specific legislation passed by Congress (13th, 14th and 15th Amendments), how the President(s) responded and what the Supreme Court did to affirm or overturn such laws.Â
3 What was the Jim Crowe era in America? How did it work against the "progress" of post-slavery American democracy? Please be specific in naming certain Jim Crowe states, laws and practices and their impact on America's Black citizens who were trying to claim hard won rights and privileges.Â
4 What role did Congress, the Supreme Court and local governmental and financial institutions play in such continuing discrimination practices such as 1) redlining 2) biased bank lending; 3) school segregation and 4) qualified immunity?
5 How have Black Americans and their allies used the US Constitution and its guarantees of "equality" to force change? Please be specific about lawsuits, movements, protests etc. and their effect on America's collective psychology so that institutional change can/has and will continue to take place.
6 Please explore the LEGACY of slavery for today's Black and other marginalized Americans. Â What is the collective psychological effect of over 245 years of continued overt and covert discrimination on the collective and individual psychology of Black and other marginalized Americans? How do these realities manifest themselves in the daily lives of Black and marginalized Americans?Â
7 Finally, please propose at least one specific and substantial legal/political change from Congress, the Presidency and/or the Supreme Court that could help America fulfill promises of equality.
Some resources for exploration on slavery, abolitionist movements, civil rights, implicit bias and anti-black racism etc. may include:
 (a) The Quakers - Benjamin Lay
 (b) Sojourner Truth
 (c) William Lloyd Ga
ison
(d) Â James Baldwin
(e) Audre LordeÂ
(f) Revisit Ch. 3 of our textbook on Civil Rights and Liberties
(g) Dr. I
am X. Kendi
(h) Angela Davis
(i) BLM Founders: Patrice Kahn-Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia GarzaÂ
As always, please make certain to use proper footnotes/in-text notes for quotes, data etc. and provide a proper bibliography.