It depends on which slaves you are referring to, but in general, forced servitude tends to inflict a mentality of hopelessness on the victim, so unless the slavery was something like a lease agreement, or indentured service, most probably never thought they would experience freedom.
it started after the civil war. when slaves were free, the kkks would capture the freed slaves at night. the kkks would hang the freed slaves on a tree. then when the slaves died the kkks would born there bodys.
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There are no freed slaves remaining on the farm where they had worked as slaves. After emancipation, freed slaves were free to leave the farms where they were enslaved.
Some freed slaves were able to move on and find work and make a decent living for themselves and their families. Some freed slaves stayed on the plantations where they had worked before or moved to other plantations nearby. Many freed slaves did not know how to be free, so they caused problems by stealing and fighting.
Some freed slaves were able to move on and find work and make a decent living for themselves and their families. Some freed slaves stayed on the plantations where they had worked before or moved to other plantations nearby. Many freed slaves did not know how to be free, so they caused problems by stealing and fighting.
the slaves in the south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
what was the return to Africa like for the freed slaves this is not an answer.
Harriet Tubman, freed many slaves in the 1800s.
Then most African Americans would still be slaves, and Barack Obama would not likely be our president. It's improbable that the slaves would never have been freed, because Northern abolitionists were so passionate about it they would have continued fighting until slavery was ended.
almost 4 million slaves been freed
Liberia is largely populated by freed slaves
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