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The freed slaves almost always lacked the money to purchase the land in order to start an economic activity on their own.
So , the Freedmen Bureau was active in encouraging the former plantation owners, who needed the labour of the former slaves, to hire them as employees and have their plantations rebuilt.
Since the owners had not enough money for the purpose, it was found the solution of the sharecropping system, by which they leased land in exchange of a portion of the crop.
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