Better or worse?

The effect Reconstruction had of former slaves wasnt that different. First, yes they were freed, and the laws were passed along with the Amendments but they were descriminated always. The "white" people always founf a way to descriminate against the African Americans even after they were no longer slaves. But freed slaves had nowhere to go after they were freed so they had to work to feed themselves and/or their family. They developed a sharecropping system but this too icluded orders from the landowners and was like a mutated form of slavery. I think they were better of after Reconstruction because even though it was little by little, they made progress in becoming completly free of descrimination and all those issues.