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How did the fourteenth amendment address the status of African Americans after the thirteenth amendment?

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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States - Including former slaves - and guaranteed all citizens, "equal protection of the laws."
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Answer: It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.

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