In history, it is no secret that the Civil War caused the Southern States to lose its leading economic position but exactly how bad?
This is a census of slave living next door to its former slave owner that displays the turning of the power.
The first part of the collage shows how much Adam Tate had in the 1860 census before the Civil War. Adam had 10,000 worth of real estate with $64,000 worth of personal assets from the horses to the slaves he owned. Then the second part shows is worth in the 1870 census after the War which showed he wasn’t worth anything and when you look below his household you’ll see the households of Henry Charles and Alexander Mccarti. What’s amazing and ironic about this census is that Henry Charles and Alexander McCarti, were now worth more than their former plantation owner. The two of them were now both worth more than the man that once capitalized on their free labor! WOW right?
The changing of the power post-Civil War is what triggered the hatred, jealousy and animosity that gave birth to the radical hate groups such as the KKK who intent was to shorting and threatened the mobility of the freed slaves which will later affect thousands of Black households for generations to come. To be continued.
