apr 12, 1865 - Sharecropping (rises during Reconstruction) - AA lack the capital to buy land; white Southerners refuse to sell lands to AA - whites need the labor of AA so sharecropping becomes popular (large plantations are subdivided into tenats worked by AA but still controlled by the plantation owner) --> leads to soil depletion & land erosion (tenants focus on making the crops & not care abt the soil)
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apr 12, 1865
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~ 161 years ago