Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house

Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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

    After the Civil War,African  Americans in the south receive a better education.  Some school being broke open, on successive night, for the past moths, have been hurled thought the windows.  They risked they life. The school didn't have floors, they have to walk three miles to get to there school.  Also  teacher were insulted for being black.


source: The Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen, Department of the Gulf, for the Year 1864 by the U.S.Army, printed in 1865 in New Orleans, available on Google Books 

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