This short chapter concentrates on the change in the southern economy from slavery to tenant farming and debt peonage. The efforts at Reconstruction are described, but African Americans, while free from slavery, largely were trapped in this new system for farming and by virulent racial discrimination and intimidation.

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Post-Civil War America

  • John F. McDonald

摘要

This short chapter concentrates on the change in the southern economy from slavery to tenant farming and debt peonage. The efforts at Reconstruction are described, but African Americans, while free from slavery, largely were trapped in this new system for farming and by virulent racial discrimination and intimidation.