African Americans actively sought ways to shed the vestiges of slavery. Many discarded the names their former enslavers had chosen for them and adopted new names like "" and "" that affirmed their new identities as free citizens.

“Freeman”

“Lincoln”

Explanation:

Reconstruction was a period of restructuring the social and political life of the blacks in the South who had victims and witnesses experiences resulting in physical and emotional suffering. During the reconstruction period, there was a drive for racial pride and self-identification in the South. Former slaves were reorganizing heir lives by shedding the names assigned to them by their former masters and choosing new names to assert their newly acquired freedom.