“The onset of the Black Death” is an introduction to Decameron, a masterpiece of classic literature by Giovanni Boccaccio. Decameron, written in the years of 1348-1353, is a set of allegorical narrative tales about ten people who fled from Florence, infected by pestilence, to the countryside. In both tragic and humorous manner, Giovanni Boccaccio described “the moral and social chaos” affected by plague in that part of Europe, as well as the struggle of an individual between life and death.…

Reconstruction was not a success because while one of its aims was to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, the mentality of the South did not change much, which is evident in the enforcement of Jim Crow laws. For instance, some states enacted difficult voting prerequisites. In addition, the Ku Klux Klan was able to operate in the South. Moreover, there was not enough capital for rebuilding after the war because the eradication of slavery had led to the per capita income of the…