Oh, dude, like, I'm not a history buff, but I'm pretty sure there were around 4 million Freedmen living in the US when the Civil War kicked off in 1861. Can you imagine being a Freedman back then? Talk about a wild time.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Republicans tried to help freedmen lots of times during reconstruction. One way they tried to help the freedmen was by creating the Freedman’s Bureau. The Freedman’s Bureau helped African Americans by making schools for them, giving them homes and protecting them. Another way they helped them was by sending troops there so the blacks could vote and the southerners that wanted to kill blacks were not allowed to do anything that could hurt the blacks in public.
What was life like for many freedmen in the South after the Civil Answer this question…
No, most blacks did not leave the south after the civil war.
There were a great many free blacks living in the south prior to the Civil War. Most free blacks in American lived in the south. In the 1860 census there were 30 million people in the US. Nine million were in the south, including three million slaves, and another half million free blacks. John Hope Franklin, the eminent black historian, has made the free black population of the south a subject of his excellent writing.