Discuss how you think life in the south was different after the war. in your own words plz and i will mark brainliest

Without slaves, their economy was in tatters. Life as the southern people knew it was gone. Many families had lost everything. Homes were destroyed by northern soldiers personal property had been taken and food supplies were used to feed the invading army. When most of the southern soldiers returned home they found homes gone, fields destroyed, families starving. and their way of life gone.