Answer:
The answer is option C "Very different from any life they had known or hoped for"
Explanation:
The period of history in the southern US following the Civil War was alluded to as the Recreation. It was a period of enormous change, for both the blacks and whites, with social, financial, and segment moves, some of which stay progressing about 150 years after the fact.
Life for some freedmen in the South after the Civil War was not a period of social equity, with many possessing the most reduced bar of society.