ally accepting this whole freedom for slaves concept. They even created a myth about the Reconstruction, which stated that blacks would not work, they’d just lay around and would respect no one. All that of course was a myth and proved to be very false, as blacks worked very hard and as for respect they did respect but they were finally saying what they felt.The Reconstruction Period did not really do all that it was expected to do. The newly freed slaves had no money, no food, no work and no land. Unfortunatley, that led to many ex-slaves to work with ex-slave owners who still treated them harshly by starving them and whipping them as if they were still slaves. Not all slaves were in that situation many practiced their rights right away and moved to other places seeking opportunity and family members they had been separated from. The North kept battling to try and make sure the ex-slaves where being treated fairly. States that rejoined the Union had to add anti-slave laws to their Constitutions. A Freedsman Bureau was created where schools, social services, help with relocation and protection was offered to ex-slaves. The South though wasn’t giving up in fact, the South created a set of harsh local and state laws called “Black Codes” passed to control blacks in the South. After a while the North began to back off and all their power issues over the South began to die down. The soldiers from the North then return to the North and no one was left to reinforce the laws that were written which concerned the blacks. The South then began to gain political power and things began to go their way again, blacks were discriminated against and their lives became difficult again even though they were free.It was not difficult to notice the issues of slavery from before the war, during the war, and after the war. Slavery formed two opposing societies, and slavery could never be abolished, the Civil War was inevitable. The C...
