was usually the one in charge, but it turns out your owner was actually in charge. The father could do nothing and was incapable of providing for or protecting his family. There have been many cases where the wife of an African American was raped because the owner wanted it. The husbands could do nothing but look away. It was so terrible that many mothers killed their children to protect them from a horrible future. Luckily, slavery ended after the Civil War, but what does that mean? Thereafter there was no difference due to sharecropping. When they finally had the chance to pursue their dreams thanks to the 13-15 amendments. Unfortunately, African Americans faced other hardships when faced with Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Black Codes were an attempt to turn the clock back to the days of slavery while the Jim Crow Laws were supposed to legalize segregation. It was hard to get out of slavery, but stopping segregation and racial discrimination was something else. People were lynched in such large numbers because of fear of economic competition and attempts to do so ...