African Americans in 1865
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- African Americans in 1865
- Violence
- Lack of respect for Whites
- Attempts to make use of rights given to them
- Intensified throughout the period
- Sharecropping
- White landowners allowed former slaves to work on their land for a share of profits
- Similar to Slavery
- Not Equal
- Uncertainty about their role and status
- Uncertainty on how far to press for equality
- Segregation
- Increased and intensified throughout the US
- Old South did not always segregate races socially
- Legally Free
- 13th Amendment (1865)
- Not separated from partners and children
- Personal Liberty
- Limits to Liberty
- Could not gain equal rights immediately
- Violence
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