How did freed slaves respond to the reconstruction?

The carpetbaggers and scalawags from the north came by the hordes to the South after the war, in an attempt to make money from the beaten and devastated South. These unscrupulous, dishonest, unethical and immoral people promised the freed slaves 40 acres and a mule if they would come and work for them. Some of the freed slaves chose to remain with the families for whom they were already working, but very few of them chose to work for the northerners who were trying to cheat them.