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Peer reviewedWynne, Lewis N. – Phylon, 1981
Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Civil Rights, Economic Change
