Laura Pogio - Question 3

The African Americans in the South after the Civil War didn't get any help from the government. From the article "A Bleak Future for Freemen", Mr.Rondema provided, a former slave in Nashville wrote a letter to an editor saying, " To us the prospect seems gloomy. We have no permanent homes, and we see no prospect of getting any." This tells me how hopeless African Americans were. I could just imagine families struggled getting through after all the chaos the war brought to the people. They didn't see any bright light from the sun: the help they severely needed. 

Source: Witness for Freedom, edited by C. Peter Ripley, published in 1993 by University of North Carolina Press. 

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Source:
 Hakim, Joy. Freedom: A History of U.S. New York: Oxford University Press                                   Inc.,2003. (Print).