The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. The negro at the close of the Civil War

Collection:: Economics Books

THE NEGRO AT THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR 9 Thus, at the close of the war, all the Negroes were somewhat better prepared for freedom than they were in 1861: the slaves on the plantation by the increased opportunities given during the war for the development of self-reliance and in- dependence of character; the Negro soldiers by their experience in army life; and the Negroes in the colonies and on the abandoned plantations by their sufferings, by having to rely upon them- selves, and by their familiarity with the customs of free and half free labor; and all of them by the partial throwing-off of servile habits. DEMORALIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR Conditions following the surrender of the Confederate armies and the consequent general emancipation were not favorable for the well- being of the Negroes. Nearly 200,000 Negro soldiers, somewhat unfitted by army life for peaceful pursuits, were gradually mustered out of service with no homes to go to and with several hundred thousand of their relatives scat tered over the border states and in the camps and Negro colonies. To unite families was diffi- cult and often impossible. The abandoned plan- tations were soon given back to the white owners, a proceeding which unsettled the Negroes who had expected a division of property. The refugee colonies were disbanded one by one, throwing numbers of blacks into the world with no plans and with hardly any faculty for making plans. Many of those who had remained slaves until 1865 now attached themselves to the armies of Occupation or crowded around the garrison posts.

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