(post-civil war questions) what were some of the influences that shaped the choices freedpeople made about their names? how did they use their names to represent their identities to others?

The sight of former slaves holding office deeply offended their onetime masters, who lashed out with particular fury at the freedmen's white allies, labeling the "" and "" the so-called __ were southerners, often former unionists and whigs. the former confederates accused them, often with wild exaggeration, of plundering the treasuries of the southern states through their political influence in the radical governments. the on the other hand, were supposedly sleazy northerners who had packed all their worldly goods into a suitcase at war's end and had come south to seek personal power and profit. in fact, most were former union soldiers and northern businessmen and professionals who wanted to play a role in modernizing the "new south."hope this ! < 3