Because some people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because they were not able to pay back the money they borrowed, they often became sharecroppers.
Emancipation caused a labor shortage on the plantations in the South. The former slaves had no money with which to purchase land. Sharecropping was the solution.
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
In Vicksburg there are a plethora (a lot) of stores and several of the stores treat the blacks well.
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It looked like the obvious move up from slavery - half-owning the crops you cultivated on someone else's land.
Reconstruction raised taxes for rebuilding. There was corruption in the government. For black people, there were few job oppourtunities. Many black people became sharecroppers. The Ku Klux Klan formed during reconstruction. And even though blacks were supposedly deemed separate but equal, that was not the case. Many whites wanted to stop blacks from voting.
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
why did farmers become sharecroppers sharecropping offered a measure of independance
In the South, the governments resisted giving full ownership of land to freed slaves. Many blacks had to become sharecroppers on the plantations where they had previously been slaves.
No, they mostly all stayed poor
some became sharecroppers,some went back to africa, some went to be nannies and maids, and some became cowboys
In Vicksburg there are a plethora (a lot) of stores and several of the stores treat the blacks well.
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Following emancipation,sharecropping came to be an economic arrangement that kept the status quo between blacks and whites
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Sharecroppers could have planted:CottonRiceCorn
The Sharecroppers farmers in the south will like not prosper after the war.
They were no longer enslaved but many became sharecroppers.