Why did southerners in reconstruction settle with Sharecropping instead of gang labor or something more similar to slavary? Like what was preventing them? Were there specific systems in place or something that prevented white landowners from this

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Why did southerners in reconstruction settle with Sharecropping instead of gang labor or something more similar to slavary? Like what was preventing them? Were there specific systems in place or something that prevented white landowners from this

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The Southerners during the reconstruction practiced sharecropping and tenant farming. Slavery as a system was formally abolished in 1865. The period from 1865-77 is marked as the period of reconstruction. This period is marked as the era of integration. Agriculture was the mainstay for the southerners they depended on the same for survival.  

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