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-banks and business house had locked their doors, ruined by inflation -transportation system broken down completely -planer arisotcrats were humbled by war -lost investments (2 billion in slaves) and almost worthless l
-some abandoned the course cotton-effects of emancipation -if strengthened the black family and many newly freed men and women formalized"slave marriges" for personal and pragmatic reasons, including the desire to make their children legal heirs -black communities provided protection and mutual assistance -whole communities sometimes moved together in search for oppurtunity -from 1878-1880, 25,000 blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi went to Kansas -church became focus of black community life -formed their own churches pastpred by their own ministers -all these organizations helped blacks protect their newly won freedom -education-learning to read and write -establisehd societies for self-improvement, which undertook to raise funds to purchase land, build schoolhouses, and hire teachersTHE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU-headed by Union general Oliver O. and-Some white southerners remained quite rebelliousFREEDMEN DEFINE FREEDOM-the meaning of freedom in the different parts of the Confederacy was different -blacks found themselves emancipated and then re-slaves-variety responses from whites as well as blacks -loyalty to the plantation master prompted some slaves to resist the liverating Union armies, while other slaves bursted out violently on the day of liberation -some emancipated slaves joined Union troops in pillaging their master's possessions-eventually all masters had to recognize their slaves as freemen -the slaves took new names in place of the ones given by theri masters and demanded that whites formally address them as Mr. Howard-created in congress in 1865 -b/c when blacks freed, no money and un-skilled, the government took a ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**.
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