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By: Rebecca Cyc

Slaves After the Civil War. By: Rebecca Cyc. Reconstruction. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed African American slaves from rebel states Due to this the southern blacks had to face hostile whites, while northern whites have already confronted that problem

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By: Rebecca Cyc

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  1. Slaves After the Civil War By: Rebecca Cyc

  2. Reconstruction • The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed African American slaves from rebel states • Due to this the southern blacks had to face hostile whites, while northern whites have already confronted that problem • During the Reconstruction period most freed slaves began to move from the southern part of the U.S.

  3. Reconstruction continued • One of the blacks that were freed wrote “For we colored people did not know how to be free, and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them” his name was Houston Hartsfield Holloway

  4. Sharecropping • The civil war ended in December 1865 and the slaves were free • The former slaves were hoping the plantations would get divided do that they could provide for themselves • The plantations were returned to the former owners

  5. Sharecropping Continued • Before the Civil War slaves lived in huts grouped together behind the plantation owner's house.

  6. Sharecropping continued • The former slaves lived in slightly larger huts spread our around the plantation rather than grouped together.

  7. The KU KLUX KLAN • At the end of the civil war radical members of congress attempted to destroy the white power structure of the rebel states • The Freeman’s Bureau was established by congress on march 3rd 1865 • The bureau was made to help former slaves find employment build schools and health facilities

  8. The KU KLUX KLAN Continued • In the next year the bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals, and provided homes and food for the former slaves • The first branch of the KKK was established in Pulaski Tennessee in May 1866. • Most leaders were former members of the confederate Army

  9. The KU KLUX KLAN Continued • The first grand wizard was Nathan Forrest an outstanding general during the Civil War • The next two years Klansman wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets tortured and killed African Americans and sympathetic whites.

  10. The KKK Continued • Between 1868 and 1870 the Ku Klux Klan played an important role in restoring white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.

  11. The end

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