1. RECONSTRUCTION ( )

2. Reconstruction Lasted
From
That would be 12 years and involved four presidents!

3. Ruins of Gallego Flour Mill - Richmond, VA

4. Charleston, SC
April 1865

5. Charleston, SC
April 1865

6. Charleston, SC
April 1865

7. Freedom! Limitations/Needs Facing The Freedmen They Need Housing
They Need Food
They Need Clothing
They Need Jobs ?

8. Na wengi hawawezi kusoma wala kuandika!8

9. “And many can’t read or write!”
You don’t read Swahili?
Na wengi hawawezi kusoma wala kuandika! means
“And many can’t read or write!” 9

10. Freedom! The Joys Move/Travel Freely Founded Schools
Establish Religion
Marry Legally
Own Land

11. Most stay in the South. What is created to help them adjust to their new lives?

12. Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Many former northern abolitionists risked their lives to help southern freedmen.
Called “carpetbaggers” by white southern Democrats.

13. Freedmen’s Bureau Developed to help former slaves
Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.

14. Freedmen’s Bureau School

15. Students standing outside a freedmen’s school known as James’ Plantation School (North Carolina)

16. Plenty to eat and nothing to do.
Freedmen’s Bureau Seen Through Southern Eyes
Plenty to eat and nothing to do.

18. Imagine you are a White Southerner . . .
Wouldn’t you be angry that the Freedmen are getting all this help and you didn’t?
How might you react?
You might become defiant!
You might feel that you have lost power!

19. As a Result, the Freedmen’s Bureau
Could not overcome Southern hostilities
Lacked political support from both Northern and Southern government officials
Ended in 1872

20. Freedmen are on their own now!