Which People Were Referred To As Sharecroppers In The Reconstruction Era After The American Civil War?
After the American Civil War, the government of the United States started a Reconstruction plan, whose major rationale was to rebuild the South, which underwent major damages and fiascos during the American Civil War. Another aim of the Reconstruction plan was to establish and settle the newly-freed African Americans. These African Americans, after getting their freedom, did not know very much about any profession other than farming, which was their major occupation during the times when they were leading their lives as slaves. Therefore a great majority of the African Americans adopted the profession of farming but for that they needed land, which was provided to them by the Southern planters. In exchange for using their land, the planters used to take a share of the crops that the freedmen used to grow and another share of crops for the price of tools, ploughs and other farming equipment that they provided to the freedmen. As a result, the freedmen ended up with only a meager share o
