Other than continuing to work for white ppl to be able to pay for housing and crap, what jobs did they take?
2007-11-25 13:44:24 · 8 answers · asked by Mama C 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
ughhhh
ok read this.
"some continued to work for white families by choice, though." the teacher wrote on my paper"what else did they do?"
so i just need a couple of other jobs they took on after slavery was abolished.
BACK IN THE 1940s. I'm not dumb. i know they have their own businessed NOW!!!!!!
2007-11-25 14:06:19 · update #1
Some remained on the farms from which they'd been freed. Others migrated north to cities like Detroit and Chicago, looking for factory work. The north was far more industrialized than was the south. The south was very much aggricultural. Having moved north, most found the going not so easy and acceptance less than hospitible. They took up work where ever they could find it. Shoe repair, factory work, ganitorial, you name it.
2007-11-25 13:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by Doc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the Civil War most of the freed slaves stayed on the land. Share cropping took the place of the plantations, but both were labor intensive. The northern migrations didn't really start till the beginning of the 20th century.
A significant number of freedmen migrated west, filed land claims, and became farmers.
The really interesting thing is how fast a parallel society came into being. In a very short time most communities had black hotels, black newspapers, restaurants, etc. Many owned by blacks. So the answer is, they did what everyone else does.
2007-11-25 14:30:45 · answer #2 · answered by nathan f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where have you been? This is 2007, African Americans hold jobs in every sector imaginable in the United States. Many own their own businesses.
Slavery ended in 1863, with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
2007-11-25 13:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure some were farmers, some worked for other people, some raised animals. There are a lot of things they could have done. Housing and crap?
2007-11-25 13:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They worked for white people...Thats how they were able to survive, right? You answered your own question..
Nobody owes anybody anything from something dating hundreds of years ago.
2007-11-25 13:56:42 · answer #5 · answered by rachel t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Housing and crap?
Another Berkeley history professor in the making.
2007-11-25 13:48:27 · answer #6 · answered by Pancakes 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Any job that rich whites wouldn't do >
2007-11-25 13:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this immigration?
2007-11-25 13:49:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋