Aylin Alvarez Aguilar - For African Americans In The South After The Civil War, What Help Did They Receive? What Challenges Did They Face?
  
 
     '' The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the civil war, the thirteenth amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of southern blacks now faced the difficulty northern blacks had confronted that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. ''


 
     Source; http://memory.loc.gov


     Source; www.civilwar.org.../african-atteretc.