Why did white southerners agree to the rise of sharecropping instead of a more direct form of slavery? Like were there any federal/ governmental things blocking a new system of slavery? Does this relate to black codes? Did sharecropping start at the beginning of reconstruction? How was sharecropping bad for black Americans? What was the freedmens bureau and why didnt the freedmen's bureau do anything?

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Why did white southerners agree to the rise of sharecropping instead of a more direct form of slavery? Like were there any federal/ governmental things blocking a new system of slavery? Does this relate to black codes? Did sharecropping start at the beginning of reconstruction? How was sharecropping bad for black Americans? What was the freedmens bureau and why didnt the freedmen's bureau do anything? 

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