the slave's life better or worse?

During a period after the civil war know as the reconstruction era former slaves of the southern states were given new rights, including the ability to own private property and vote in some elections. To the best efforts of the southern states that had tried to prevent the blacks from voting, created something known as the black codes which limited the blacks in many ways.  however they could also continue living on the land they once slaved on, since the it was all they knew at the time. Those plantations where still  owned by white landlords but with only a few minor differences, like paying rent to the land owner for tools and land to farm and live on, in the end they were almost treated worse during the share cropping  time paying for everything to the land owner, and just like before had told them how to run their lives. In some cases the former slaves would have to pay the landlord for not feeding their family, which by all means is ridiculous, along with the fact that most of them could hold only a few jobs if they are not on a plantation, although they get paid they end up just using to pay the loans they have and like most of the time they  were mostly in debt. The ones on  the outside meaning they are not working on a plantation because of the reconstruction were able to run for low level offices and hold some jobs but they were still limited in part to segregation