SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Freed slaves liked living on plantations.
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Sharecropping provided a way for freed slaves to make a living.
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Living conditions were improved by becoming sharecroppers.
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Freed slaves enjoyed working on a farm.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They did not have slaves or money to pay a free labor force, so sharecropping developed as a system that could benefit plantation owners and former slaves. Landowners would have access to a large labor force, and the newly freed slaves were looking for work.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The benefits of this system were that a farmer without disposable wealth, which could be used to buy farmland or equipment, could still become a farmer and make a living. In addition, a farm owner could gain income from farmland he did not have the time or the income to farm themselves.
Detailed explanation-5: -As cash was scarce, the system of sharecropping arose to meet the need of white landowners of labor for land cultivation, and the needs of poor farmers of all races for physical and economic survival. With a sharecropping contract, poor farmers were granted access to farm small plots of land.