After reconstruction, the transitional period immediately following the Civil War, a slow and steady stream ... One Greenville sharecropper put it succinctly when he explained that he had to ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers ... Very often the sharecropper is in debt at the end of the year, and continues in ...

The emancipation of slaves had destroyed the plantations’ source of free labor and replaced it with the sharecropper system. After the Civil War newly freed slaves thought they could work as ...

ASALH's Freedom Schools aim to combat attempts to restrict the teaching of Black history by offering a quality education in ...