-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 land
             -Some white southerners remained quite rebellious
             -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. or Mrs.
             -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 teachers
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