Unit 7: DBQ Essay Introduction In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation applied to Southern states only, it politically would not apply to the Northern and Border States; so to have another try at abolishing slavery; in 1864, congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery everywhere, including in the South. Of course this still was not enough for the South, their whole economy is based off of Slavery. Finally, in 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, now all the slaves that are free, had to be treated like citizens (1). To avoid giving freedmen full citizenship, southern states began to pass a series of discriminatory state laws collectively known as black codes. Colored people were still not granted standard living conditions as citizens in the South. Labor/ Work …show more content…
African Americans are now free but they didn’t have anything of their own so anything they needed they had work for it, so they all needed jobs. In the South, they were acquainted with one system of labor. They were presented with another system of labor, called Wage Labor, but they wouldn’t appreciate it. The South had been so use to the system of slave labor, because they could get what their essentials without paying them to get it….Wage labor would result in a destructive outcome to the South (2). After the Civil War, the South was in an economic collapse, they couldn’t afford to pay both freedmen and regular white employees. This became an economic problem. As African Americans plead for work, the South question. Southerners felt that if they were working they wouldn’t be considered free anymore, if freedmen worked, they have gained no freedom; but without work they’re not able to provide (3). Those freedmen needed jobs so they could afford this new