The Social And Economic Transformation Of Reconstruction

The social and economic transformation of the South changed. To blacks, freedom meant independence from white control. Reconstruction provided the opportunity for African Americans to create something new for themselves whether its religions institutions, which became a gathering place that existed long after reconstruction ended. The former slaves also demanded economic independence. Blacks’ hopes that the federal government would provide them with land. Some support from the government that they were lacking from previous times.
Most white southerners saw literacy, political equality, or any advancement for blacks as a loss to whites a way of them losing power over the blacks.
They did not what the blacks to be economically stable and free,