RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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AA were always in dept
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food was not distributed fairly
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landowners were going poor
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there was not enough taxes being collected
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Detailed explanation-1: -High interest rates, unpredictable harvests, and unscrupulous landlords and merchants often kept tenant farm families severely indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next.
Detailed explanation-2: -Through sharecropping, white landowners hoarded the profits of Black workers’ agricultural labor, trapping them in poverty and debt for generations. Black people who challenged this system of domination faced threats, violence, and even murder.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sharecropping is a form of land tenancy, in which the landowner permits the tenant to use his land in return for a stipulated fraction of the output (the ‘share’).
Detailed explanation-4: -Who gained from it? The sharecropping system allowed people without land to farm by dividing their cash crop profits with the landowner. The drawback was that it was difficult for a poor farm family to stay out of debt while sharecropping.