The Reconstruction Era essentially recreated the slave system through the Black Codes in the southern states. Death rates of blacks on plantations actually went

The Reconstruction Era essentially recreated the slave system through the Black Codes in the southern states. Death rates of blacks on plantations actually went up after the civil war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)