How free were the Slaves after the reconstruction.

The slaves were not free at all after the reconstruction. Yeah they had the rights but they did not have the resources to be free.! they could not leave their master's plantation because not many of the slaves had the money to go to the north and be free so staying at in the south as their only option. 50% of their crops grown in their master's plantation where they also lived was for the white people to pay for the tools the freed men use and themselves. It was thelegal way for the white men to feel in a type of control over the freed men . They didn't want to realize that they now not had any control over them and if they wanted to live they could, but the white men were very aware that the freed men did not only not have the resources economically but also they didn't have the education to do it.