Why did some of the freed slaves want to stay in the South?

One of the key reasons freed slaves stayed in the South was the uncertainty of life in the North. Although the belief by many former slaves was the North was a welcoming place, they had heard from captured slaves that there was racism in the North and jobs were not as prevalent as some believed.
Another reason Is the culture of the South. Having only witnessed life in the South freed slaves understood that jobs in agriculture would still be necessary. The hope of many was that with freedom would come the ability to have their own land to farm or receive wages where or close by to their current living space. Many land owners of former slaves did offer jobs to freed slaves but offering little payment.
A third reason for freed slaves to remain in the South was the danger of traveling North. Slaves did not travel a great deal in the South and the journey North would be an unproven trek. Money, that newly freed slaves did not have, would be needed to purchase food, water, and other supplies for the trip. They would have to travel on roads where soldiers had traveled and deal with whites that had been brutal to blacks in the past.

Some of the slaves who were freed after the Civil War chose to stay living in the South. Not every slave packed up and moved to the North in fear of the Southern ways. Many of the slaves had respect for the slave masters because they treated them well. The government started "share-cropping." This was a way for slaves, who started their walks in freedom with nothing, to be able to make an honest living. Sharecropping is where a farm owner allows a tenant to use some of their land to produce a crop, in exchange for a share of the crop produced on their land.
The South had a sense of normality to them, and the North made no promises for a better life. Many of the slaves actually kept the same jobs they had before, and continued working for the land owners they previously were entitled to. The difference was that they were now paid for their labor.

There are several reasons why some of the slaves freed after the Civil War decided to stay in the South. First, in certain parts of the South, slaves had been freed by their owners before the Civil War, and in other areas such as Eatonville, Florida there were long-established communities of free blacks. That meant that newly freed slaves could join existing communities of free black people in the south.
Second, many slaves had deep local roots in black communities often centered around churches. Moving north would have torn them away from their communities and families. Also, although many slaves were horribly mistreated, there were a small minority who may have been treated well by their owners and been offered jobs after they were freed.
For many ex-slaves, there was no guarantee that they would have been better off moving North. Living in the rural South with which they were familiar and where they knew people might have seemed more attractive than the risk of traveling (which was arduous and dangerous) North to possibly end up starving in an urban slum.