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...... During the antebellum period, the separation of the races, being
white from black, was one of the most powerful institutions in the Deep
South; in fact, it was so important that segregation remained in place long
after emancipation and the end of the Civil War and up until the middle
decades of the 20th century when segregation was made illegal by an act of
the U.S. Supreme Court. As to religion, slaves were allowed to worship in
segregated sections of white churches, but with the advent of
Reconstruction around 1867, freed slaves left the white churches and formed
their own Baptist and Methodist congregations
The governments which were set up by the North during the
Reconstruction period often mandated that segregation remain in place which
affected the ability of freed slaves to attend and seek assistance in many
local and state-level social institutions, such as colleges, hospitals and
welfare facilities. For example, in the state of Georgia, there was no
existing system for the care

of disenfranchised former slaves and those who suffered from diseases and
many physical ailments until the early 1880's. Also during this time,
former slaves were forced to live in very inadequate housing, especially in

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