The plantation owners
Life on plantationsMany plantations used African slaves for the hard labor, such as cotton, rice, indigo or tobacco.
they where very rich until the 13th amendment was signed (after the civil war) and southern plantation owners had to let their slaves free and did not have any help working on their plantations.
Sam Watkins was correct in saying that the Civil War was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. There were more poor farmers fighting than rich plantation owners.
poor white southerners, plantation owners, and black southerners
they killed insane people
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
Because, before the Civil War, they had not to pay the manpower employed and, after the war, thanks to the system of sharing the crops with the former slaves.
The plantation system ended. Because there were no longer slaves to work on the plantations, Southern farmers had to find new sources of agricultural labor
they killed insane people
Plantations suffered at the civil war because the fighting took place their and destroyed the plantation.
The US Civil War Battle of Kock's Plantation was fought on July 12th to the 13th in July of 1863. It was a Confederate victory in Louisiana.
No. The plantation is fully operational as a historical museum and grounds tour, open to the public for a modest fee. There is no evidence that Oak Alley Plantation was damaged at all during the Civil War.
The plantation owners
At the start of the war: * plantation workers * house servants
Many slaves in the South were put to work on plantations before and during the Civil War. Many of these plantations were used to grow tobacco.
it caused the civil war it caused the civil war