In 1863, the war effectively ended the slavery even before ratification of the 13th Amendment. Even though slaves were "freed" they still didn't have certain rights and whites that didn't want them to be freed blacks still got harmed. For example blacks were kind of being forced to have families because that gave whites more slaves, eventually the whites would separate the families and they would never get reunited again.
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Although slavery was "legally" ended in 1863 by the 13th Amendment, involuntary servitude was still largely rampant within the United states. Through sharecropping, newly freed African Americans were forced into financial bondage with their former masters. The former slaves, who didn't have education, property, money, opportunities, etc were often forced to make unfair deals with white plantation owners. The White plantation owners needed a workforce and the African Americans needed food, shelter, etc. Through a process called sharecropping, African Americans would be granted land from the white plantation owner. However, the cost of renting that piece of land would be all if not more of the land's crop yields. Through this method, African Americans would be chronically in debt.
That's crazy because even students denied the fact that not even a black man could fight for their own freedom and also people who were not white were isolated from their own families.
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