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Denied the right to serve on juries. Certainly cannot vote, but the most heinous problem during this period was the apprenticeship laws. A lot of us think that black men were rounded up and jailed, if they did not have visible means of support. If they do not have employment. The real tragedy, i think, of his early period, starting right and 1867 war into 1866 was the apprenticeship of africanamerican children. Children being return to former owners and forced to labor for them because the parents were deemed indigent. People who have fought for their freedom now losing their children to the v...

Passes these laws, trying to impose what looks like quasislavery on the newly emancipated. These were governments johnson had created. Absolutely. You had incidents of africanamericans not being able to purchase land, when they would have been able to do that, because you had black soldiers who may have had a little bit of money. You had people trying to limited resources, they were not allowed to either purchase the land or rent the land. You have black people being denied the right to serve on juries. Certainly cannot vote, but the most heinous problem during this period was the apprenticesh...