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Reconstuction - Research Paper

Reconstuction

The reconstruction period was a time of recovery for the country as a whole. To heal the deep wounds of the civil war. The loss of cities, towns, homes, and family members. Whole cities were burned level, and widows were left scattered all over the country with a small pile of smoking rubble left as their houses. The whole country was a shambles and everyone agreed on one thing - it was time to start the healing and recovery of a nation.
But the reconstruction period wasn’t just about healing. It was a new beginning. For the north, for the south, for everyone a new start. Yet, it was the most important new start to the former slaves, the African-Americans.
After being enslaved for hundreds ...

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was to free the African-American slaves, to allow them to have equal rights to the white race. But after the war was over, and the slaves were supposedly free, did they still not remain caged? Where could they turn? The newly freed slaves had no money, no land, no food, and no jobs. They remained slaves because they lacked those basic necessities. Therefore, where they really freed?
The first example that kept them in captivity was food. Everybody needs to eat regardless of their skin color. Previously, food had been provided for them by the slave owner, but now that they were free, they were on their own for finding food.
Secondly, was jobs. It was obvious that nobody in the south was going to hire an African-American to do anything more than what they had done as slaves. And even hard farm labor didn’t pay anything because the landowners were resentful to pay the African- American’s for a service that was previously free. Most of the freed slaves were also illiterate. This meant ...

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Added: 8/16/2005 12:16:50 AM
Category: American History
Type: Free Paper
Words: 894
Pages: 4

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