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After the slaves were freed white plantation owners had to find new ways to work their land. They typically used three methods: sharecropping tenant farming and wage labor. Sharecropping was a common practice in the South. It involved a system where a tenant farmer usually a former slave would work the land in exchange for a share of the crops proceeds at the end of the harvest. The plantation owner would provide the land tools and supplies while the tenant farmer handled the labor. Tenant farming was similar to sharecropping but the tenant farmer was required to pay rent for the use of the land. This allowed plantation owners to maintain control of their land but it often left the tenant farmer in a difficult financial position. The third option was wage labor which involved hiring workers to work the land. This was the most expensive option but it allowed plantation owners to maintain more control over the land and the labor. In the end white plantation owners had to adjust their methods of working the land after the slaves were freed. Sharecropping tenant farming and wage labor were the three primary options available to them and each had its own pros and cons.
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Did all landowners in the south own slaves?
No, not all landowners in the South owned slaves. In fact, the majority of white families in the Southern states did not own any slaves. Slavery was more prevalent among large plantation owners, who made up a smaller percentage of the population.
Who do the whites get to pacify the slaves?
Whip-wielding overseers, slave drivers, and plantation owners used physical violence and threats to keep slaves in line and maintain control over them. Other methods included religion, creating divisions among slaves, and offering rewards for compliance.
What was life like in the south for the newly freed slaves?
Life for newly freed slaves in the South was incredibly challenging. Many faced poverty, lack of access to education and healthcare, discrimination, and threats of violence from white supremacist groups. They also had to navigate the complexities of finding paid work and securing housing, often in a hostile environment.
Did slaves get married to their owners?
Slaves could not be married to their owners, for their owners were most likely white. Back during the Civil War; and before then, it was not necessarily a law, but un-allowed for a black man to marry a white woman, or a black woman to marry a white man. I believe, to marry a white woman or man and be black, I think you must be an ex- slave. You can't be a slave if you marry a slave owner.
What were some of the southern arguments in defense of slavery?
1) If the slaves were freed, there would be no one to look after their welfare. 2) The slaves on the plantation had a happier life than the poorly paid factory laborers in the North 3) Freedom for the slaves would be a danger to white society, especially after the Turner Insurrection 4) Slavery was the only way Blacks and Whites could live together in America
Plantation owners had white servants as well as slaves because they feared what?
Slave rebellions
Why didn't white plantation owners let former slaves work as employees?
Greed
What did plantation owners fear that led them to separate the white servants from black slaves?
Slave rebellions.
How did slavery define the structure of white southern society?
Slaves of the south were busy, hard workers of the white south plantation owners. In other words, slaves are used to help the white plantation owners do farming work in the fields all day from morning to the dawn. They were often beated with whips if they disobeyed.
What was one way plantation owners tried to prevent slave revolts?
Having white servants as well as slaves
What happened when the slaves arrived in the Americas?
They were taken to slave auctions were they would then be sold to white people usually plantation owners.
Why do the owners put the slaves to work on the plantation?
because the white people(owners) didnt like sand,, they hated sand.. and black people are more stronger than white white people are lazy and are bratz!
Who took advantage of the homestead act?
white Americans, freed slaves and immigrants
Why did the plantation owners in the south rely on slaves?
they relied because they were their only form of food and therefore supplies. the white owners didnt want to do any work themselves.
Who had political power in the southern colonies?
Rich white plantation owners and they're control of slaves and cotton.
What caused the slave trade in Africa?
The white plantation owners wanted to save money by not paying their workers so they decided to buy slaves. In the 1600's and 1700's there were lots of slaves for sale in Africa so the white people bought slaves from other Africans.
What was one way plantation owners defended the ownership of slaves?
One way employed by the slave owners to justify the practice of slavery was by saying that Africans were mentally inferior, and they were created and meant to be subservient to the white Americans.
