Former slaves were not happy with their situation; not being able to vote and treated poorly. Unfortunately, Reconstruction did not do much to help that change. African Americans who were freed, were employed by landowners to work on their plots of lands due to the new sharecropping system. The landowner did though provide them with land, a house, tools and seeds and work animals. But basically, there was no difference in the treatment of the African Americans due to the replacement of slavery with the sharecropping system. The only difference was that instead of being connected to an owner, they were connected to landowners. But, the reconstruction did permit blacks to vote, but after their votes adding up to be higher than the white people votes, white people where not happy and therefore resulted in manipulating the voting system.
So basically, Reconstruction did have its outcomes when it came to former slaves but not dramatically. The former slaves’ lives were very similar and did not change much after Reconstruction.
