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Yes. They were poorly educated and only had experience doing one job. Most of the time they ended up working at the very same plantations they had been freed from, for the same masters, only nominally "free".

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What were slaves freed at the end of the war able to do?

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.


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Why did many freed slaves remain on the farms were they had worked as slaves?

They did not know how to live on their own as free people. -APEX


Did the freed slaves go back to work on plantations after the war?

No.


What are the causes of the underground railroad?

People used it to escape to Canada because the work the slaves did was to hard.


Where did the freed slaves settle?

After being freed, many former slaves settled in areas where they had established communities or where they had work opportunities. Some settled in cities to find employment, while others returned to rural areas where they had family ties. Overall, freed slaves settled in various regions throughout the United States, with a significant number migrating to the northern states.


What is the name of the system where freed slaves worked on someone else's land?

sharecropping


When if ever would the slaves have been freed if the south had won the cicil war?

Good question. Another president would have to find a way to work that out.


What was life like for freed slaves in the south after the civil war?

Former slaves believed that after years of hard labor the South owed them land. This belief was not granted by the South; and many slaves rented small homes and went back to work for paid wages on the plantations.


How did African slaves contirbute to the development of the Americas?

They contributed to Americans by their labor and hard work like slavery they freed all of us from it so basically they contributed to America in a huge way.