To my knowledge(I am a 10th grade honors student and have some experience in American History, not a lot though), some of them chose to stay because they were able to keep some of the land they had worked on, and it was all they had so they wanted to stay with it. Might wanna check on that, I'm not completely sure.
The carpetbaggers and scalawags from the north came by the hordes to the South after the war, in an attempt to make money from the beaten and devastated South. These unscrupulous, dishonest, unethical and immoral people promised the freed slaves 40 acres and a mule if they would come and work for them. Some of the freed slaves chose to remain with the families for whom they were already working, but very few of them chose to work for the northerners who were trying to cheat them.
the slaves in the south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
South got help with its thouands of freed slaves by the Freedman's Bureau.
almost 4 million slaves been freed
They did not know how to live on their own as free people
It freed all slaves in the south.
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Because he was the one that freed the slaves from the south
The Civil War was over slavery. The North was against it and the south was for slavery. The North won so all the slaves were freed.
because of democracy
The Emancipation Proclamation.
Harriet Tubman