Pre and Post Civil War -JRC

Pre and post-civil war lifestyle for African Americans did not have many differences. In fact some African Americans, who had something to offer during slavery, may have been safer pre civil war rather than post-civil war. Their masters favored them. However when it came to the uneducated African Americans who were only able to do physical work on the plantation were beaten severely, to the point where they may have been able to see death coming for them.  When it comes to violence pre and post-civil war, African Americans may have had some sort of hope. But a message was quickly sent to them, they have more horror to come.  It was once known as slavery where African Americans were being tortured and used, however post-civil war life quickly changed to African American being killed, with the use of lynching in other words hung. At one point whites looked at African Americans as something that can be useful, they were not even looked at as humans. However they have some sort of use in the average white family. As soon as the civil war ended it was quickly noted that these “things” no longer had any use in society. There was nothing they were good for. Now that they were granted the right to vote white supremacist set out on a hunting spree, accusing many African American males of rape and without any sort of mercy killing them in front hundreds of people. What was once a slave society was quickly turned into a sadist lifestyle, where white men, women and children experienced pleasure watching an African American suffer from pain.