Terrorism of African Americans in America did not begin when the FBI created the Cointel Pro counterintelligence program, people of African descent have been terrorized in the United States since their inadvertent arrival in the United States country in the 17th century. Slavery in America depended directly on the agricultural labor of African slaves. Africans were dehumanized and treated no better than cattle in the fields. They were unable to learn to read and write and had no legal rights. The case Dred Scott v. Sanford's 1857 Supreme Court ruling denied citizenship and fundamental rights to all free or enslaved blacks. White Americans robbed Africans of their cultures, religions, customs, and humanity to keep Africans under total control. By the late 1700s, the agricultural labor required by slavery had been transformed into a racial caste system. The modern socially constructed concept of race was created to make African Americans believe that they are inferior to the white race. This sense of white inferiority rationalized the enslavement of Africans. African women, men and children were often raped, beaten, lynched and sometimes even put to death to demonstrate the power and dominance the white master had over the slave. These violent acts were intended to scare the African slave to often teach other slaves a lesson in power and control and to let them know that if you disobey your master, this can happen to you too. Slavery finally ended in 1963 with the Emancipation Proclamation, but was not fully abolished until 1965 with the passage of the 13th Amendment in the United States Constitution. The freeing of slaves constituted de jure freedom, but de facto slavery came into full force in 1865. -1866, when the white south...... middle of paper ...... while the actions of the US government United States go unnoticed, they will continue to infiltrate, disrupt and terrorize any organization or person that poses a threat to them. Works cited “terrorism.” Merriam-Webster.com. 2014. http://www.merriam-webster.com (8 May 2014).Barnett, Ida B. and Ida B. Barnett. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: Ida B. Wells's Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1892-1900. Boston, MA: Bedford Books, 1997. Bloom, Joshua, and Waldo E. Martin. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.Newton, Huey P.. Revolutionary Suicide. [1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. FBI Secrets: An Agent's Exposé. M. Wesley Swearingen. Boston. South end print. 1995 http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/cointel-pro-black-extremists