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Were african american free during reconstruction?

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African Americans were not enslaved during Reconstruction. However, they were not truly free in most times and places because they lacked economic power and political equality. Of course, African Americans were legally free during Reconstruction. read more

Supposedly, four million slaves were free. But the reconstruction era had lots of opposition from southern whites. During this era also came "Black Codes" and the Jim Crow laws that suppressed blacks rights even more. So many blacks I'm sure had to go back to old way of living. read more

The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted--that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. read more

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