Did emancipation improve the economic conditions of the former slaves in the reconstruction era?
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NO, for alot of the former slaves that remained in the south, it was a hard time, alot tried to work for their former masters, but what the yankees hadn't destroyed the carpetbaggers robbed  by extremely high property taxes. alot of times the former master and former slave worked side by side to try to make a living. the yankee carpetbaggers that robbed the land hired the former slaves, on a kind of share crop, but the odds were stacked against the share cropper and the carpetbagger made more money, it was actually slavery, because no matter how hard they worked, the carpetbagger would charge them more. Some of the former slaves that went north, faired better, but their was resentment among the northern people from the former slaves taking jobs away from them.
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you can say that southern economy depends on slaves. and without the south's raw goods, the north is nowhere. for example, the cotton from the south was used in factories in the north to make clothes, etc \nand you can be a real pig by saying they are lower than white ppl and blah blah blah all that silly stuff the southerners thought
269873
After 400 years of slavery should blacks be ahead of whites economically no in fact hell no why?? Because climbing the economic latter is like a race those who starts first have the ultimate advantage so its like this whites started runninng the economic race 400 whole years before blacks even thought of any type of wealth infact whites used blacks to get where they are today 400 yrs of payfree labor (free money in white peoples pockets) gav them anothere boost many whites have what youde call old money, money passed down from generations, which was generated by slavery, then theres fertile land, nourished by blacks. No real apologies made, no reparations, racism still exists although the majority of racist have no reaal reason to be angry (whites ancestors didnt suffer in America). Good thing is no no Great thing is no naa Astonishing thing is, is that Blacks havnt lost faith theyre still running the race and are catching up, through the many years of suffering if blacks didnt learn to do anything else they learned to surive and fight, so while blacks are running the race today theyre still fighting and surviving. Blacks are way far ahead of whites as far as the total outlook on life simply because theyve struggled for so long and lived without that theyve learned to appreciate the more simpler aspects of life therefore broadening the view. When you start off poor there is soo much more to look foward to but when you begin rich you loose the ability to indulge on the simpler  plesures. The African American race has sooo much to proud of and I think that they should embrace theyre past to prevail in the future, Black generations have come farther than many other races and they werent carried with money like many others. I say give blacks another 10 yrs and they would have caught up creating a tie unvailing equality for all Blacks in America shrinking racism to a diminutive peice of crap.
99563
Yes.  The underground railroad was not a real railroad.  It involved basically smuggling people through Southern states until they reached a Northern state where there was no slavery.
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reconstruction and changing economic market models.
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Would the introduction of the sugar beet have eventually made slavery an inefficient form of production? If so, was the Civil War necessary?
277449
In those days slaves were considered property and were treated as such.  If the slave owner died they were often left to a family member, often passed from father to eldest son or from female family member to a younger female family member.  There were cases of slave owners granting emancipation papers to their slaves upon their deaths and leaving them their freedom.  If a slave owner died without heirs, the estate would have been taken over by the government and either sold as a whole with the slaves included, or broken up and disbursed with.
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Actually, there WAS a lot of industry.  The civil war had ended, slaves were emancipated (but still very poor and discriminated against).  Most states in the West weren't states yet, just territories with no proper government.  Things were pretty busy in large cities and in Industrial New England and New York and Pennsylvania, but if there wasn't a railroad nearby, you had to take a horse or boat or just walk, so people didn't move very far away if they could help it.  I don't think there were labor usions in those times, so work conditions were pretty bad, and since medical science was pretty scarce compared to today, people died fairly young of diseases like smallpox, typhoid, cholera, etc.
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The main one I can think of is industrialization. Following the Civil War, we witnessed the birth of corporate America and the making of Getty and Rockefeller. Fortunes were made in Oil and Steel.
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Former slaves, who were only thought as property and less than human, now were counted as part of the population. And even though many went North after the end of the Civil War, most stayed in the place where they knew. So if there was a plantation, which had over a hundred slaves that were not counted as part of the population before, now were considered part of it. And as you know the House of Representatives gives as many seats out for each state depending on how many people live in the state and not on how big the state is. And more representatives meant more political power in Washington, DC. Don't forget also, that the Southern states after the Civil War were not governed by Southerners, Northerners were put in charge and Reconstruction took place (which was both positive and negitive).
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1.  It resulted in the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments\n2.  It resulted in the old South becoming powerful again and relegating Blacks to second-class citizenship again after 1877 with the Compromise of 1877\n3.  It led to the end of the first Ku Klux Klan\n4.  It started the sharecropping economy in the South\n5.  It began the Jim Crow Era in the South\n\nBecause of the failure of Reconstruction there was a need for the civil rights movement to occur following World War II.
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I am guessing you are talking of the organized aid to people in slavery in the USA.\n\nThe National Park Service has details at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/\n\nUC Davis, University of California has a similar site at http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm.\n\nAnother useful site :\n\nhttp://collections.ic.gc.ca/underground/flightall.html.\n\nThe National Geographic has an interactive feature on it at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j2.html
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It dates back to slavery times.  Life was so hard and the only escape was to die and go to heaven.  After emancipation, life remained difficult for the poor, ex-slaves.  Many were sharecroppers and lived in poverty.  And when the economy turned down, such as the Great Depression, it is usually the blacks who suffered the most.  Heaven remained the only real hope for many of them.  It was a coping strategy which held many families together, and helped them deal with the gross injustices they experienced.
701887
Depends on when you're talking about. Slavery in the 18th/19th century was a horrendous and brutal regime; slaves were strictly property and could be treated as such - beaten, starved and generally treated like dirt. Slavery under the Roman Empire was comparitively benign; slaves then had numerous protections, were guaranteed food, housing and a certain standard of living. If you were unable to provide these, you would not be allowed to keep slaves.
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made them richer,others poorer
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It was not just about slavery but that is about all most people know about it. Of course it is good that slavery was abolished but slavery continued in the North even during the Civil War. In the south, most cotton farmers faired little better than the slaves, picking cotton along side them. It was not just about big Plantations and rich white slave masters in red coats and top hats!\n\nThe south was destroyed.\nThe war was primarily an economic war just like most wars. In this case, over cotton.\nThe South was threatening to have their cotton sent to Europe and bypass the East. The East would have been hurt tremendously and used the slavery issue as a way to garner public support.\n\nThe pros were that the East kept their manufacturing and slavery was abolished.\nThe cons are too numerous to mention. People's lives and livelihoods were destroyed for decades to come. Carpet baggers made it even worse after the war was over. Many blacks stayed on the farms and helped with the recovery.\n\nThis is an interesting war to study and I hope you enjoy your research. It seems like the slavery issue is all people know about it.
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Consider this- the North had the factories and the ability to ship goods produced by those factories for export, the South had plantations with a lot fewer ways of shipping the goods (cotton, etc.) to the factories where the cotton, etc. was made into other things(virtually no way to export goods).