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Sharecroppers were the group in the South least likely to prosper after the US Civil War. In addition many former wealthy plantation owners had enemies within the Radical Republican Party. Added to these groups were Southern families that had lost the heads of their households due to death and disease during the war.

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In the aftermath of the US Civil War, one group of people can be said to both prosper and not prosper at the war's end. This question is answered by opinion, there are no facts that can alter the case that this answer involves Afr-Americans. Clearly if a person was a slave prior and during the war, then the abolition of slavery was cause for joy and potential prosperity considering free people versus enslaved people.On the other hand, freed Blacks in the South now became the targets of white supremacy groups that were so racist to the point of murders and fear among the Black population.

The US, North and South was a racist nation before and after the Civil War. Freed slaves could indeed migrate north as many did to escape the terrorism in the South. However, they were not greeted with open arms in the North.

It should be noted that even before the US Civil War, true abolitionists, or moderate thinkers such as Lincoln, believed that for their own benefit, Blacks should seek to form colonies outside the US. Whether in Africa or Central America. Part of this was truly due to seeking the "best" for the formerly enslaved peoples, but some of it was due to racism.

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