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.
The government in the South didn't want to give 100% land ownership to the newly freed slaves. They had to be sharecroppers on the plantations where they originally were slaves.
Slavery gave way to sharecropping - the labourer owning part of his harvest.
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the civil war improved industries and almost stopped labor force