Reconstruction in North Carolina and its effect of the ex-slaves?

Question

Between 1865-1870, what was life like for the freed blacks in North Carolina?
If you have any sources or information that could help with this topic please provide them. Thank you.

Answer 1

Here are some books that should help:

North Carolina faces the freedmen : race relations during presidential Reconstruction, 1865-67
by Roberta Sue Alexander
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 198

North Carolina during Reconstruction,
by Richard L Zuber
Publisher: Raleigh, State Dept. of Archives and History, 1969.
ISBN: 0865260893 9780865260894

Reconstruction in North Carolina
by Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton
Publisher: New York : Columbia University, 1914.

Answer 2

I suppose it would be rude for me to suggest you simply type:

Conditions for freed blacks 1860-70 in your favorite search engine

You would get about 100 long articles and personal reports of what conditions were like.

If you want one single sentence to answer your question it would be

Harsh and dicriminatory.

For example in North Carolina if you were a slave who got his/her freedom you would be required to leave the STATE within 48 hours!

At your school and every other American School the real question on every exam should be :

" Why would 460,000 brave American soldiers die to free the slaves and then proceed to re-enslave them for another 150 years, economically, socially and geographically ?"