Question

African Americans during Reconstruction:

Felix Haywood-Backs are too soft and freedom wasn’t going to be much to their good even if they were educated.
Warren McKinney-No land to get, no money, no food, blacks were dying left and right.
Lee Guidon-After the slaves were freed they would rename themselves, give themselves famous names like Abraham or Lincoln ("Lincum"). KKK run blacks out of town if they started to succeed
Toby Jones-Some blacks forced to stay and work for their "masters" but once escaped they had nothing and lived like savages hunting wild game with homemade arrows and animal skin clothing
Questions:
1. Judging from these accounts, what were major problems that former slaves faced after the war.

Answer 1

Those accounts tell us that after African Americans were freed, they still faced an uphill battle to pull themselves up economically.

Step-by-step explanation:

Having been former slaves, the vast majority of them possessed no land of their own, neither capital to start businesses.

Most of them continued to live in the South when just a few years back the constitution of the Confederacy had claimed that African Americans were second-class people: racism was deep and entrenched.

Many of them became laborers in conditions very similar to slavery. A lot others emigrated to the North to find work in industrial cities.