What happened to most African Americans once they were freed?

African Americans celebrated their newfound freedom both privately and in public jubilees.
But life in the years after slavery also proved to be difficult and most southern black Americans, though free, lived in desperate rural poverty. Having been denied education and wages under slavery, ex-slaves were often forced by the necessity of their economic circumstances to rent land from former white slave owners.

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