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Effects Of Reconstruction On African Americans After Civil War

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During the reconstruction phase after the Civil War Southerners and Northerners treated blacks different in many ways and similar in some ways as well. Many of the black began to leave the south in 1877 after the Nicodemus community was created originating in Kentucky. When many of african americans began to migrate to the North many of the Southern slave owners and master’s gave their slaves the option to stay and work for pay and housing instead of just as slaves, this was because at the time agriculture and the practice of farming was the main way for people during the time to have a source of income and bring food to the table. Many african american’s left because of how they were treated by their master’s. Some in which chose to stay
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