What did they want?
- Their Land Returned
- Restoration of their Civil Rights
- No Civil Rights for Former Slaves
- No Punishment from the Federal Government
- Write their own state constitutions
- Hold Public Office...both local & federal
- Little to No Interference from the Federal Government (the Union)
- No Federal Troops in the South
- Restore the Cotton Economy
- Work Force of Former Slaves
- Did NOT want to pay for labor
- Social Superiority over Freedmen
- Black Codes - Limit the economic, social, & political freedom of former slaves
- No education for former slave
- No Freedman's Bureau