Jourdon Anderson Writes His Former Enslaver, 1865 Black Americans hoped that the end of the Civil War would create an entirely new world, while white southerners tried to restore the antebellum order as much as they could. Most former enslavers sought to maintain control over their laborers through sharecropping contracts. P.H. Anderson of Tennessee was … Continue reading Jourdon Anderson Writes His Former Enslaver, 1865