9h 17min, jan 1, 1870 y - Share Cropping Begins
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Although slavery had been abolished in 1865 Southerners wanted to keep a hand on the Blacks. With the idea of Slavery, the whites invented sharecropping. Sharecropping rented out land to Africans to own and work on a white farm owners land.
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U.S. History Final Project; Waggoner, Noelle
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