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This paper examines the plight of the freedmen, the black slaves who were freed during America's Civil War, and the impact that reconstruction had on this group of individuals. Also included in this discussion is mention of the rising of the Ku Klux Klan. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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"freedmen" - could now work with their white brethren in the South as free and equal individuals and the North brushed its hands together, quite satisfied, to see the barbaric
institution of slavery finally ended. However, in freeing slaves in a war-ravaged and terribly resentful South, the North actually condemned the freedmen to even more heartaches, prejudices and, in the
end, close to another 100 years of different types of slavery known as segregation. When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued and the war
ended, thousands upon thousands of black slaves gained their freedom. It was a dubious victory, however. (Reconstruction). These former slaves, who were once considered property and owned by others, were
now "free," but had little idea of what to do with that freedom (Reconstruction). They needed a trade, money and education to get their new lives started, but had no
notion of how to go about getting any of these things (Reconstruction). One tool that was established to assist the Southern blacks was the Freedmens Bureau, which was established in
March, 1868, to provide relief work for blacks and white in war-stricken areas; to regulate black labor and support education for blacks, just to name a few (Freedmens Bureau). However
noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The economic
and social aspects of the freedmen following the Civil War were to be difficult (Forner). First, there was conflict between blacks who wanted to be free (and who wanted to
earn wages as a result of that freedom) and landowners and planters who wanted to return to the old order (Forner). Former slaves were more interested in re-establishing ties to
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