This woman spent her entire life enslaved in Mississippi. She finally gained freedom at age 64 when the Union army seized
the plantation she was forced to work just before the Civil
War came to an end. While freedom was a glorious feeling,
with no money, land, or education, she is worried about what
the future holds. Her primary concern is finding her three
children who were sold years before when the plantation
owner was in debt. She hopes that Mississippi will soon be
re-admitted to the United States and that the national
government will provide some aid and assistance in creating
a new life. how reconstruction would affect this woman?