After the end of the Civil War, one of the biggest problems in the South was labor because of the freedom African Americans enjoyed. For African Americans who had experienced slavery their entire lives, freedom meant many more things than just being free. This meant that they were free from the whites who controlled them, free from the unimaginable regulations of slavery, free to hold large meetings among themselves and worship, freedom to have their own property, not to mention the freedom to 'have land and work. freely, without wipes or chains. When it came to black people wanting to work for themselves, not for the masters. When it came to African Americans during Reconstruction, they faced many hardships and events. African Americans understood that there was really no hope of owning their own land, but the idea of ​​developing at least secure economic independence was still in their hopeful future. Surprisingly enough, whites were unhappy that blacks had migrated to cities that worked for whites and also provided African Americans more opportunities to compete for jobs and also put them at almost the same social status as whites . It is interesting to note the great improvement in the lifestyle of African Americans after the Civil War and how quickly Reconstruction began. Black migration began at the end of the Civil War, which really took into account African Americans as they moved on and left cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and New York at that time. Which turned out to be one of the biggest movements of their time. People left these foreboding areas and small towns in the South to...... middle of paper ......ing development to the black family in exchange for African Americans to cultivate and harvest the crops, not to mention giving the majority of the crops they grew to the owners. This system actually proved quite ineffective for African Americans in their quest to obtain their own land, which they should have realized was meaningless because they did not own the land on which they worked and they gave more. more than half of the harvests go to whites. African Americans also had to sign a contract with the sharecropper that required African American farmers to work until they had repaid the debt for the land as well as the farm equipment they used to process the crops. It wasn't exactly the best help for them in their quest for economic freedom and freedom in general, but it was at least a starting point for African Americans..