African American Conflicts And Compromise

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I am very interested in African American history. So I looked up ‘African American Conflicts and Compromise’. I find it a little bit fun to learn about my ancestors and everything they have been through. There were many of suggestions online on which topic I should choose but I found that the Compromise of 1850 also created some conflicts. I was also interested in this topic because it had turned out that Henry Clay had written this paper, which is a person who my class had just learned about. I conducted my research by mostly looking online. I mostly used a .gov website because I believe it is more reliable because no one else can change the website. The website I used also lead me to other primary sources. I also read some books that told

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