Why is studying slavery important to our understanding of our nation’s past AND present? Explain using at least three reasons why. Your reasons should be based on historical fact.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the answer is a. laws were enacted in the aftermath of the plot to make it harder to free slaves,increasing sectionalism