DANIEL MARTINEZ

 For African Americans in the South after the Civil War, what help did they receive? What challenges did they face?

In the letter "A BLEAK FUTURE FOR FREEDMAN" SAMUEL CHILDRESS sent a newspaper company a letter about how "NEGROS" suffered in the south.  "We are not acquainted with the whole of it…To us the prospect seems gloomy.  We see no prospect for permanent homes and we see no prospect of them getting any." Said Childress in his letter to the newspaper.   This shows that the north wasn't helping the slaves find freedom, when they were the ones who told them they were free.  "The profit of it has gone to increase the pride and wickedness of our old masters,while we have been left poor.It cannot be denied that the colored race has earned all this property. Justice should give it back to us. But what happened to it? It has gone back to the Southern hands dripping with blood and who have committed some major evil." All this tells just how much the Southern slaves suffered an we did nothing to help them.