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The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States and the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to freed slaves. What challenges did the former slave population face once they were freed.

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They still weren’t treated as equals, even when the US army occupied the south, after they left it only got worse with Jim Crow laws.
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