After civil war that blacks were promised freedom but a year from when civil war ended they were still in slavery still being a treated differently and wrong. What we did wrong was trust them to keep their promise. We didn't make sure that we had land to live on after we was free, we didn't have someone walking around making sure we all was free. We trusted and believed in the white man. “White Americans did not expect blacks to participate in Reconstruction-era debates.
“Blacks thought otherwise. The nation’s approximately four million African Americans, of whom roughly 3.5 million had been enslaved, were at the center of each of these questions. If white northerners had only gradually come to understand that the Civil War was a war to end slavery, they recognized immediately during the postwar era that the place of blacks in American society was inextricably bound up in all these pressing questions of the day.”. Whites don't understand our pain and what slaves had to go through for their ancestors to live the life their living. “After the Civil War, were the Confederate states conquered lands, frontier territories, or states in good standing? …show more content…
Before civil war formers and all made the promise to. They was suppose to let the slaves go but instead they kept them and did even more harsh things to them. “White southerners overplayed their hand. The combination of the harsh Black Codes and the prevalence of Confederates in southern delegations to Congress in the fall of 1865 hastened the beginning of what became known as Congressional
“Blacks thought otherwise. The nation’s approximately four million African Americans, of whom roughly 3.5 million had been enslaved, were at the center of each of these questions. If white northerners had only gradually come to understand that the Civil War was a war to end slavery, they recognized immediately during the postwar era that the place of blacks in American society was inextricably bound up in all these pressing questions of the day.”. Whites don't understand our pain and what slaves had to go through for their ancestors to live the life their living. “After the Civil War, were the Confederate states conquered lands, frontier territories, or states in good standing? …show more content…
Before civil war formers and all made the promise to. They was suppose to let the slaves go but instead they kept them and did even more harsh things to them. “White southerners overplayed their hand. The combination of the harsh Black Codes and the prevalence of Confederates in southern delegations to Congress in the fall of 1865 hastened the beginning of what became known as Congressional