Description
Using evidence from all three Reconstruction sources, explain what life was like for African Americans after the Civil War. In addition to employment and law enforcement, consider how African Americans were treated in a broader sense – for example, African American veterans, African American women, African American property owners, and those who worked as share croppers?
To what extent was the Freedmen’s Bureau able to help freedpeople during Reconstruction? How did sharecropping (and its required contracts) reinforce the Black Codes and vice-versa? Were the freedpeople “free” after emancipation?
