Assume the role of a freedman in 1865. Describe your hopes and fears. What is it that you expect of freedom? What do you want? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER
Consider:
Hopes: land ownership; economic independence; education; mobility; legal marriage; suffrage.
Fears: white supremacists; failing idealism of sympathetic whites; withdrawal of Congress’s support; dependence on whites.
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