In most cases, they did whatever they had been doing as slaves, with two differences: 1) If they didn't like the work, or the employer, they could leave and go somewhere else, and: 2) They got paid for what they were doing.
They required slaves pay ridiculous sums of money, just for the right to buy land.
They had no way to make a living except by attending to the cotton fields.
Why of course to make a living off the backs of the slaves. They brought slaves to America to work their fields and land pretty much they built this country off the backs of the slaves.
They made literacy tests an easy way to prevent freed slaves from voting APEX
In the north manufacturing was there way of life.
Many made a living as sharecroppers.
to help former slaves make the change to freedom...
the former slave owners were usually wealthy Greeks so they didn't try to make the slaves lives harder but they tried to make their lives easy.
Answer this question… Former slaves fighting in the Union army were essential to several Northern victories.
to help former slaves obtain food, shelter, clothing, and education
to help former slaves obtain food, shelter, clothing, and education
The slaves were free, but not free. The south was in ruins at the end of the war, but the former slaves really had no place to go so they stayed where they were for the most part. Sharecroppers became a way of life, but even though people are "free" they were economically slaves. The plantation owners paid them very little, discriminated against them, and they could barely make a living. Jim Crow laws saw to it that segregation was a part of life.
The slaves were free, but not free. The south was in ruins at the end of the war, but the former slaves really had no place to go so they stayed where they were for the most part. Sharecroppers became a way of life, but even though people are "free" they were economically slaves. The plantation owners paid them very little, discriminated against them, and they could barely make a living. Jim Crow laws saw to it that segregation was a part of life.
The Freedmen's Bureau
to help former slaves to make change into freedom
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau