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I'm not sure whether this goes in here or somewhere in chat/NP-chat.
What happened to freedmen in the immediate aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and the Thirteenth Amendment and similar legislation? How did they own property and gain income and find work? Was it simply a case of them working as "apprentices" (the proper euphemism for this stage of abolition) until they gained enough money to buy or rent homes for them and their families?