FREED SLAVE TREATMENT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR:
Life during the Reconstruction era was hard and very frustrating for freed slaves. The racist idea of white-supremacy was growing in the South, and the creation of racist organizations such as the Klu Klux Klan mistreated and terrorized freed slaves. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution freed abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the Constitution to all freed slaves, and the 15th Amendment gave freed slaves the right to vote. Even though African Americans were free after the Civil War, the white men were still considered superior and often times slaves still didn't get to vote.