Emancipation did not translate into wealth for the freed as they expected
Evidence
Just like that we was free.” He recalled how optimistic he’d been, how he’d suddenly believed all things were possible. “We thought we was goin’ to get rich like the white folks. We thought we was goin’ to be richer than the white folks, ’cause we was stronger and knowed how to work, and the whites didn’t and they didn’t have us to work for them anymore. But it didn’t turn out that way. We soon found out that freedom could make folks proud but it didn’t make ’em rich.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 474
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Category: Factual Claims