<em>Were still treated poorly.</em>
Explanation:
After the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, many African Americans in the South were still treated poorly.
When the North won the Civil War, the South was not happy when they realized that slavery was going to be abolished. The Southern states heavily relied on slave labor in order to maintain their plantations, which was their main source of income. The North did not rely on agricultural purposes, but they relied on industrialization so they would have no problem abolishing slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment got ratified into the United States Constitution and while the Northern citizens were very ecstatic about this, the South wasn't. They now had to pay people or use indentured servants in order to maintain their plantations and that would cause them to lose a bit of money.
Even after the Thirteenth Amendment, African Americans were still being treated very poorly by the Southern people. They would use Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, and segregation against African Americans to keep them from getting ahead.
