What kind of life did free african americans have

For African Americans in the South, life after slavery was a world transformed. Most southern black Americans, though free, lived in desperate rural poverty. Having been denied education and wages under slavery, ex-slaves were often sharecroppers and robbed of their wages even when they had enough money to pay their dues from borrowing food and clothes off of credit.

Explanation:

war of 1812  

a. slavery

b. a depression  

c. impressment  

d. the northwest ord

number 1 is a)