Happy New Year!
Slavery is abolished in 1865.
Students today listened to recordings of people born into slavery.
Their stories about being freed and their families.
*Freedman's Bureau: Implemented to help poor white people and freed African American slaves.
-A version of welfare.
A lot of slave owners didn't tell their slaves that they have been emancipated.
Some stayed in slavery for two years after slavery was abolished.
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*Slaves can come and go, but they had to pay their debt and couldn't leave until it was paid off.
However, it would take an incredibly long time to pay it back.
Land owners would encourage their "workers" to buy more stuff, causing more debt.
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