how did systems such as share-cropping, farm tenancy, ande the crop lien systems disproportionately affect blacks and poor whites? How did black extension agents to aid black farmers?
I do not know black%26amp;American history, but I want to know. Thanks for you answer!!How did life change for black people after the Civil War?
The first answer is completely wrong. African Americans were technically %26quot;free%26quot; after the civil war, but their lives did not change much. They were still oppressed by a number of laws, and certainly did NOT have the right to sit where they wanted or to vote until many years after the end of the civil war. Look up American civil rights on any search engine and you will find all sorts of websites with good information.
And don't learn this from television shows like roots. There are plenty of good books on this topic which are much better than television.How did life change for black people after the Civil War?
well they had the writes to sit where ever they want ,vote,have their own housesdo whatever the want but they still fellthe same so they were carefulHow did life change for black people after the Civil War?
get a copy of Roots 1,2,3,How did life change for black people after the Civil War?
During Slavery black people were somewhat provided with the basic necessities of life. SOMEWHAT. I am not saying they got the best of anything...far from it. Most got scraps from butchering for meats, if they were lucky they could have a small garden beside their house to work after they had already worked from dawn to dark. They were subjected to having their children or husband/wife taken away at any minute to be sold, rape, forcible %26quot;breeding%26quot; programs, any other sort of degradation that could be thought up to make money. They could be %26quot;rented out%26quot; for laboring for another person. Anything.
After slavery ended, what few protections they had as someone's %26quot;property%26quot; was gone. Before that... if you killed or maimed someone's slave, you were responsible for damages. After Emancipation....the black people had NO PROTECTIONS at all. They went from SOMEWHAT protected, provided for, clothed, fed, to having to provide for themselves. Of course, no one made them work or beat them or sold them...
I can't say which is worse/better.
They were not allowed to vote after the first few years of Reconstuction, Laws were passed to make sure they didn't.
Laws called %26quot;Grandfather Laws%26quot; that said if your grandfather voted...you could vote or if they didn't, you couldn't. Well how many black MEN's grandfather voted in 1825? 1845? 1865? Not many.
One law said if you didn't own property, you couldn't vote. Most were sharecroppers and didn't own their property. IF they ever did scrape together the money to buy some property, no one would sell to them.
Then someone came up with a Poll Tax. You had to pay X amount of money to vote. Well... few could afford to pay to vote either.
Then the states passed segregation laws. Black people could only sit in certian areas on a bus. Certian churches, most resturants, water fountains, restrooms,
Don't forget about the Clan. The Ku Klux Klan..KKK wore sheets for anoynomous membership but everyone knew who they were usually. If a black person dared to raise their head (basically) they could be beaten, burned, tarred and feathered, raped, killed in various ways. I have included a link so you can read it and realize they are not only against black people. They are against EVERYONE that ain't white and Baptist. :( I have never heard of Black Extention Agents.
Anyway.
Sharecropping affected black and white people both. Most that were in the cycle never got out. I think it effected blacks worse though, because of the %26quot;keeping them down%26quot; train of thought. It was common for black farmers to be charged even more than the white farmers who were already overcharged.
Believe me Emancipation wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It for sure didn't solve every problem that the black people had. Good Luck on your studying.
