RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Sharecropping
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Slavery
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Convict-Leased System
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Slavery without chains
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions.
Detailed explanation-2: -The system in various states. In Georgia convict leasing began in April 1868, when Union General and newly appointed provisional governor Thomas H. Ruger issued a convict lease for prisoners to William Fort for work on the Georgia and Alabama Railroad.
Detailed explanation-3: -Convict leasing undermines competitive labor markets and decreases living standards by reducing wage and employment rates among the free population.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1868 Georgia’s first convict lease contract granted one hundred prisoners from the State Penitentiary to the Georgia and Alabama Railroad for a period of one year at a cost of $2, 500. The state exploited these men and women as the solution to the post-war labor crisis.