After the Civil War sharecropping worked out so much better for plantation owners that Southerners did not complain about emancipation.
There was no longer a need to pay for expensive overseers and the blacks were self-motivated to work hard.
“After the Civil War sharecropping worked out so much better for plantation owners that Southerners did not complain about emancipation.
There was no longer a need to pay for expensive overseers and the blacks were self-motivated to work hard.”
The newly returned states passed restrictive labor and vagrancy laws that resembled slavery in almost everything but the name. The cause of the 14th & 15th amendments. Sharecropping came along after that.