Freedom is the authority to or from something, some place, or someone. We all, as US citizens, have unalienable rights and freedoms that are given to us from birth. Slaves and even free black "citizens" during the time of slavery and
reconstruction didn't have the dame freedoms as the white citizens. |
Reconstruction is the time period from 1865 to 1877. This era followed the American Civil War, the most destructive period in American history. Reconstruction was a trial-and-error period for whites and blacks to integrate into society. Soon after the start of the well-meaningful Reconstruction, people started to deny its civility and laws or acts were passed to slowly push African Americans back to something exactly like slavery, but with a different name. These acts, were called the black codes.
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops and money produced from the land.