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Economic reconstruction required a complete reordering of a slave society, with the construction of a free labor social system in which blacks or whites had a lot of experience. This social revolution al centered on agriculture which was the South's leading economic sector, providing most of the region's wealth, and employing the most amount of people in its labor force. After the war, the distribution of landed wealth in the South remained unchanged

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