Probably the majority of former slaves stayed with their masters or returned to them after checking out alternatives. Many became sharecroppers. There are historical records that don’t fit today’s narratives.
Go to the Mississippi Delta
Memphis down to Vicksburg
The land between the Loess Bluffs and the Mississippi River
Lore of the Blues
Rosedale
Itta Beena
Rolling Fork
Indianola
Leland
Tutweiler
Yazoo City....
Clarksdale
Marks
Ruleville
Greenville
Without question the blackest part of America to this day
Talking about how blacks stayed in the slave states....their descendants are still there
The paternalistic notions of the old south via Christianity towards blacks has NEVER EVER been understood by non southerners or liberals
Not in 1866 nor 1963 nor today
Used to be called White Mans Burden
Whites felt responsible fo them....that’s just how it was
It’s ironic
The left thinks we still are they just want to demonize us and make us pay for it and strip our political power via non white identity redress
Whites let this happen
I wonder if a generation will wake up
My oldest son wishes it would start already...lol
He thinks I’m a soft old man too willing to be pragmatic
Oh to be young no?
What else were former slaves going to do? Tending crops was all they knew how to do. Later generations of blacks would head north to work in the factories, but in the years immediately after the Civil War, white people would not tolerate the competition.