Do you think that despite the problems the freed slaves were better off than they had been before emancipation

 no, Freedom is important to every man, if your locked up in a  cell with hardly any air to breathe and you are so hot that you could drown yourself in a ocean and you had to work all day and night and you are tired but you cant sleep or rest for even a second and they only gave you a hand full of yucky slimy food that is not healthy for you. Look yeh. I am a African and this question go me on my last nerve

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