Unfortunately in many cases the old Slave powers continued slavery, or the old ways, in just new and updated versions of what happened before the Civil War. Your Follow Up is to continue to discuss these events. You have provided a great overview of the era and the major issues but now let's examine a few specifics. Discuss the issue of share cropping and how it undermined the spirit of the 13th Amendment. You may also want to bring in the vagrancy laws of the era as well. And here's a special Bonus area: see if you can find any information on the penal release system that some states (I believe it started in Georgia) orchestrated. Once you find these asides, I think we'll understand the failures of Reconstruction even better. This is a nice start to the Forum and we are officially into week 7!