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 ...

Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of the South to be settled, after the Civil War, the state became ... Under the system, the sharecropper rented a plot of land and paid for it ...

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 ...

His father, Samuel, and mother, Osa Mae, were both sharecroppers. Frazier also worked as a sharecropper at a young age. "At 12 years old, I went into the fields, cotton fields, and corn fields ...