Was the life of a Freedmen changed throughout the late 19 century? Some would say yes and others would say no ,but I would say it did both. Life for a Freedmen was very difficult but not always, it can be shown socially, economically, and politically. The only way the Freedmen changed in a fair way is politically.
Economically Freedmen did not change. Freedmen weren’t the richest or the smartest, they were far from it. Freedmen were not well educated so it was easy for them to be fooled by the whites. Most freedmen stayed in the south to sharecrop because that’s all they knew how to do. Sharecropping was a system of farming that allowed the whites to take advantage of the freedmen by the low wages they received. And according to document D it shows how much sharecropping has developed in the South. Due to the fact that the Freedmen didn’t know anything better they just allowed it to happen ,and they lived a economic life like a slave. Economically a slave didn’t have anything much like a Freedmen. …show more content…
Once the 13th amendment was passed all slavery was banned and the life of a freedmen began. The life of the freedmen socially did not change from a slave. Freedmen were treated very poorly by segregation from the whites and the KKK “Invisible Empire of the South”. The KKK scared many freedmen from doing things that they wanted to do. The KKK also used violence to get what they wanted. But they were mostly affected socially by segregation which can be seen in Document C. In that picture it shows that the whites and the colored