Assignment 12

Assignment 12

Why did so many former slaves enter into sharecropping contracts following the Civil War? What was the alternative? To what extent did the Black Codes encourage such a labor arrangement, and why?

Ans. With slavery being the main issue in the south, they had trouble keeping them from escaping to the north where slavery didn't exist. In 1896 the United States Supreme Court made a landmark jurisprudence decision, even for the United States. The court approved legal racial segregation in public facilities, and ruled that having any black ancestry at all was grounds for classification as "black" and granted prohibition ...