It looked like the obvious move up from slavery - half-owning the crops you cultivated on someone else's land.
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
After the US Civil War, many poor white farmers became sharecroppers, farming land owned by the wealthy planters in exchange for a percentage of their crop's yield.
Many southerners felt this was a violation of the Constitution. General Sherman was a general in the Union Army during the Civil war.
Probably to get away from slavery, as there was lots of black slaves in the south.
african americans were not ready to hold political office
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
they felt the were less then them, animals
they felt the were less then them, animals
They were no longer enslaved but many became sharecroppers.
In the South, the governments resisted giving full ownership of land to freed slaves. Many blacks had to become sharecroppers on the plantations where they had previously been slaves.
My grandpa was a sharecropper in the 1940's.
the fifthen amendment
After the US Civil War, many poor white farmers became sharecroppers, farming land owned by the wealthy planters in exchange for a percentage of their crop's yield.
Many southerners felt this was a violation of the Constitution. General Sherman was a general in the Union Army during the Civil war.
Many southerners felt this was a violation of the Constitution. General Sherman was a general in the Union Army during the Civil war.
Many white Southerns, Dixiecrats, and conservative Republicans did not support Civil Rights, so did not want Kennedy to create laws concerning Civil Rights because they would give blacks more power and therefore Kennedy did not have a mandate and could not pass much legislation.
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