EFFECTS OF THE WAR
-Economic life worsened
-banks and business house had locked their doors, ruined by inflation
-factories were closed
-transportation system broken down completely
-agriculture in Sout crippled
-slave labor system collapsed
-less amount of cotton produced
-planer arisotcrats were humbled by war
-reduced to poverty
-lost investments (2 billion in slaves) and almost worthless land
-Some white southerners remained quite rebellious
FREEDMEN 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. or Mrs.
-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 teachers
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