RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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former plantation owners.
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former Union soldiers.
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former Confederate soldiers.
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former African slaves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment freed all slaves in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Freed Persons Receive Wages From Former Owner Some emancipated slaves quickly fled from the neighborhood of their owners, while others became wage laborers for former owners. Most importantly, African Americans could make choices for themselves about where they labored and the type of work they performed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The history of sharecropping is a product of forced removals and genocide of indigenous people, settler colonialism, and slavery. Sharecropping was a farming system developed as a solution to the sudden need for housing and jobs to Freed(wo)men due to the Civil War.