In America, when they were freed.
two radical political terrorist groups that had association with the thoughts of the KKK. Their chief intention was to oppose the rights of the freedmen, and were motivated by racial supremacists views.
sharecropping
Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
it was legal as a form of punishment
In sharecropping, both freed slaves and poor whites borrowed land, seeds, and tools from a landowner, in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.
they had to stay on the land till they could make the money to pay
let the landowner decide what to plant
samuel j tiden
Paying less for crops raised by African Americans