What impact did the civil war have on the South's African American population?

Answer 1

Many migrated north and west

Answer 2

The war killed tens of thousands of the south's healthiest and strongest men, many of its best educated and its doctors, bankrupted every state treasury, physically destroyed most factories, ports and ships, thousands of buildings and bridges.

There was moral and psychological loss as well.

Answer 3

It is important to remember that the Civil War was not about freeing the slaves and how immoral it was to keep another man, woman or child inferior to another man, woman or child it was about the economy and what was best for the North - no slavery- was not good for the south - who was going to harvest all of those acres of land if there weren't any slaves?- After the Civil War the African American people did one of two things decided to migrate to the North, where hostility towards African Americans was less or stay in the South because that was all they knew. There was a new method of slavery that was called sharecropping. Basically the old land owners would rent land to the former slaves and the slaves would have to pay back with 95% or more of whatever they made. Obviously this would not be enough for anyone to be able to survive on and thus a new method of suppressing African Americans was created. In the North the former slaves tried looking for work. Men would try to work in the factories and women would try to work as maids. Most of them indoctrinated their children on how important it was (and arguably still is) to have an education to help them become well educated people in the future.

Other ways in which they were affected after the civil war was by segregation and the Jim Crow laws that soon followed to further suppress blacks in the South. These laws were all abolished in the 1960s with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voters Rights Act.

Answer 4

The Civil war lead to the emancipation proclamation where Lincoln freed all the slaves. This was the first step towards freedom for many African Americans, but racism was still a prominent issue up until the 1960s, and even to this day.

Answer 5

It had the effect of freeing them, although the war had not originally been fought directly over slavery.

For tactical reasons, Lincoln had issued his Emancipation Proclamation, which sounded like a human rights document, but was in fact a device to shame Britain and France out of sending aid to the Confederates.

The document itself couldn't free the slaves (and it allowed slavery to continue in the slave-states hat had remained loyal), but it authorised Union troops to liberate slaves wherever they found them in their Southern campaigns.

After that, there was no prospect of returning ex-slaves to their ex-masters.

Answer 6

The effects of the civil war for African Americans led to the freeing of slaves. However, it also led to the creation of the Jim Crow Laws and segregation as well as hate crimes.

Answer 7

they got out of slavery

Answer 8

They migrated North and West.