Freedmen

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Freedmens Life During Reconstruction
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Freedom!

• The Joys
• Move/Travel Freely
• Founded Schools
• Establish Religion
• Marry Legally
• Own Land

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Freedom!

• The Limitations/Needs
• Housing
• Food
• Clothing
• Jobs . . . What can they do?

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Sharecropping

• A landowner allows person to use the land in
  return for a share of the crop produced on the
  land (50 split), but . . .

• Anything borrowed and/or rent also had to be paid
  with the remainder of the crop

Who gets the money?
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Tenant Farming

• Only slightly betterthese farmers have purchased
  their own equipment and only rent the land.
• EconomicLimitation forFreedmen

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Freedmens Bureau (1865)

• Agency (of the Federal Govt) developed to help
  former slaves
• Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.

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Students standing outside a freedmens school
known as James Plantation School (North Carolina)
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Freedmens Bureau (1865)

• Agency (of the Federal Govt) developed to help
  former slaves
• Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.
• Unpopularwith manyWhite Southerners

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Imagine you are a White Southerner . . .

• Wouldnt you be angry that the Freedmen are
  getting all this help?
• What might you do?
• You might become defiant!
• You might feel that you have lost power!

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As a Result, the Freedmens Bureau . . .

• Could not overcome Southern hostility,
• Lacked political support of North and South, and
• Ended in 1872

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Limits to Freedmens Rights

• Disenfranchisement (means to prevent from voting)
• Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
• Hate Groups