How free were the Blacks?

The topic of the civil war was slavery. Many people died fighting for what they believed in… Weather slaves should or shouldn’t be slaves. We all know how it ended up though, the north won and slavery ended. But did slavery completely end? I believe that slavery was and wasn’t over at the same time.

The civil war was a war fighting for the freedom of blacks. However even after the north won the war the blacks were still not allowed to do all the things that white people could do. For example even after the war blacks could not run in a governmental position. They could not be a legislator or a judge or anything of that kind. The men however under some circumstances could be in the jury, but not women.

Socially blacks were not treated nearly as equal as white people. Most eateries would not allow blacks to eat there. Very many people even after the war still believed that blacks were not as equal as us. In 1860 just about 14 percent of the U.S. population was black.

Economically blacks also had a decently rough time. They were allowed to have jobs however they usually didn’t get a really great job compared to the jobs that the white people had. Because of the lack of jobs that blacks were able to have, some blacks even thought that they were better off being slaves the way that they were still being treated.

In conclusion the blacks were free after the civil war, however even thought they were free they weren’t able to do everything that whites were able to do. It was a long time later when blacks were completely treated like whites are treated.