The dark family, the dark church, and instruction were focal components in the lives of post-liberation African Americans. Numerous African Americans lived in edgy provincial destitution over the South in the decades following the Civil War.  

For African Americans in the South, facing everyday life after bondage was a world changed. Gone were the brutalities and outrages of slave life, the whippings and rapes, the selling and persuasive migration of relatives, the forswearing of instruction, compensation, legitimate marriage, homeownership, and the sky is the limit from there. African Americans praised their freshly discovered opportunity both secretly and in open celebrations.

The war was a severe reality for African Americans in the South. Starvation was inescapable, incompletely in view of the association bar. Expansion made anything difficult to purchase, that likewise implied ace for slave. At the point when the government armed forces came through, people of color were assaulted, assets taken and at times there'd be a major grill, that would most recent one night and afterward, when the homestead executes were pulverized, the donkey and draft ponies taken and the slave quarters consumed, the repercussions was yearning and illness.

Most southern black Americans, however free, lived in edgy country destitution. Having been denied training and wages under subjection, ex-slaves were frequently constrained by the need of their financial conditions to lease land from previous white slave proprietors. These tenant farmers paid lease on the land by giving a segment of their harvest to the landowner.

In a couple of spots in the South, previous slaves held onto land from previous slave proprietors in the prompt repercussions of the Civil War. Be that as it may, government troops immediately reestablished the land to the white landowners. A development among Republicans in Congress to give land to previous slaves was ineffective. Previous slaves were never made up for their subjugation.