Why did many freed slaves remain on the farms where they had worked as slaves?

They did not know how to live on their own as free people.

Explanation:

Numerous freed slaves worked on the same farms they were slaved in before, and for the same Wages. With no money, nor education or experience doing anything but slaving away on a white man’s farm, many of them had to sign labor contracts with former masters for payment often worse than the one they had during slavery.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.