31 gen 1865 anni - Different definitions of freedom postwar

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| GOVERNMENT: | “What is freedom? Is it the bare privilege of not being chained? If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion.” Congressman James A. Garfield | BLACK: | “If I cannot do like a white man,” Henry Adams, an emancipated slave in Louisiana, told his former master in 1865, “I am not free.”| black ideas supported by northern whites| HOW: | family: come back 2gether, but white gender roles appear | church | education | suffrage | land | SOUTHERN WHITES: | bitter bc they're poor now and have to do hard labor | v narrow definition; legally 'free', but still want antebellum hierarchy