Discuss how the United States was originally a caste society and moved to a class society.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Varies: At the beginning of the United States developing as a nation, Whites used Black enslavement labor to develop its economic system. Enslavement of Blacks was a caste system. Meaning if your parents were enslaved then you were also enslaved and so on. This racial caste system lasted for 400 years, restricting Blacks to the lowest of the caste system, not allowing them freedom, opportunity, or mobility. Blacks were properties owned by Whites, which allowed them to maintain Blacks in this caste system for centuries.
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