how was the life of a free slave in the south- the good and bad??

Question

mistake: freed*

Answer 1

Your question incorporates an oxymoron. If you mean a freed slave, the answer was, generally pretty bad.

Answer 2

It would depend on whether you're asking about that life before or after the Civil War.

Prior to the Civil War any slave lucky enough to be freed by a Southern owner would have had to go either north or west to avoid capture by bounty hunters -- since any black person running around in the South would have been assumed to be a runaway slave. That concern would have gone away after the war.

As for the quality of life of a freed slave, I can't imagine it being all that great -- except for the freedom to live unbound. Prejudice abounded, jobs were very hard to get, and ownership of land was almost impossible. This is why many former slaves migrated into the Midwest, where land was relatively easy to get and opportunities awaited. Its also why there was a boom in all-black settlements, since the best way for a black man to get respect at the time was to live and work with other black men.

Answer 3

Despite the promises of Freedom and emancipation the truth is that many african americans who were in the south after the US civil war wer neither free or emancipated except by decree only.

Many were denied jobs and basic human rights even to the point the groups like the Klan were founded to harrass and murder the coloureds.

Given the control of the law was in white peoples hands many ex slaves were rounded up and imprissoned for crimes real or imagined.and crimes of the Klan were never investigated never mind solved. (Pretty hard to do when your local Sheriff was also the Grand Dragon)

Even up to the 1960s - 70s States like Mississippi openly persecuted and cajoled Blacks denying them equal rights and the right to vote., go to schools or even ride white peoples buses without having to sit down the back.

Like Iraq the civil war was based on lies, it was not about freeing slaves, most southern boys couldnt even afford Slaves , and New York Irish are unlikely to have wanted to see them free. It was about the Rights of States to be self determining over the Federal interest. Nothing more , nothing less.

Answer 4

Compared to the times when they used to be slaves? Better.. But FAR FAR from anything we'd consider as
'good'.. Check out The Colour Purple. I can't remember who wrote the book, but Steven Speilberg did a wonderful job with the movie (starring Whoppi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey)..

Answer 5

I would like to know that answer too.