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This 3 page paper explores some of the issues blacks faced during Reconstruction, including income, education, farming and family life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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quickly as possible, and help in rebuilding the devastated region. This paper discusses the economic and social conditions of blacks in the South during Reconstruction, including education, farming, income and
family life. Discussion History renders a mixed verdict on Reconstruction, but in some respects it has to be seen as a positive. For one thing, Emancipation brought with it a
strengthening of family ties (Faragher et al, 2000). Newly freed slaves were now able to find other family members who had been sold or otherwise separated from them (Faragher et
al, 2000). Emancipation also meant that African-American couples who had been living together were able to get married, thus strengthening the family (Faragher et al, 2000). Reconstruction improved education
as well. Knowing that educated blacks would be a threat, slave owners prohibited their slaves from learning to read; thus it was with great anticipation that they began to attend
school after Emancipation, and during the Reconstruction period. "Young and old, the freed people flocked to the schools established after the Civil War" (Building the black community: the school, 2003).
Reconstruction "laid the foundation for public schooling in the South, for both races (Building the black community: the school, 2003). Most of the funding for the schools came from such
organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black community: the school, 2003). Much of the impetus for education came from the
blacks themselves, who "purchased land, constructed buildings, and raised money to hire teachers" (Building the black community: the school, 2003). The building of schools also contributed indirectly to the growth
of cities, as families moved closer to schools (Building the black community: the school, 2003). This gave black children easier access to education, and enabled the children "to instruct their
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