I prefer to study the Civil War, but for the Reconstruction Era post-war, what were the success and failures economically and socially?

Thanx for browsing and thanx for posting...
Primarily this forum is designed to focus the survival tools and tactics employed to deal with the post war turmoils of being "freed".

As important is what records do we use as we track kin during this period.

Success? Failure? Hmmmmmm