I need help writing my introduction for my paper, heres the requirements. Provide a broad overview of life for African Americans in the beginning during the colonial period and then later, during the Reconstruction era. State a key change between these two periods in addition to an example of something that might stay somewhat the same that you’ll expand upon later. While it’s important to write about the commonly acknowledged aspects of life for African Americans in the beginning, challenge yourself to find lesser-known details, such as the role of western African nations in the Atlantic slave trade.

African Americans have it kind of tough. they live in huts and they cant be as clean as us some African Americans are clean and live like us but others not so much. (that would be my bold intro)

(this is if you want the hole paper done)

African Americans have it kind of tough. they live in huts and they cant be as clean as us some African Americans are clean and live like us but others not so much. African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States. Never the less, African Americans have made basic and lasting contributions to American history and culture. At the turn of the 21st century, more than half the country’s more than 36 million African Americans lived in the South; 10 Southern states had Black populations exceeding 1 million. African Americans were also concentrated in the largest cities, with more than 2 million living in New York City and more than 1 million in Chicago. Detroit, Philadelphia, and Houston each had a Black population between 500,000 and 1 million.

the main reason that the constitution did not proclaim all men to be free and equal is because of the issue of slavery.

the northwest ordinance of 1787 guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there.