What were the challenges that faced freedmen and their families at the immediate end of Civil War?

Discussion 2 (Foner, Chapters 1-2):
What were the challenges that faced freedmen and their families at the immediate end of Civil War? Who were the different interest groups and parties who hoped to gain from the emerging Reconstruction of the South? How did President Lincoln’s death influence the tone of the immediate post-war government?

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