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Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]

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After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping system in the late 19th century and poverty today? [pdf]

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crop-lien system, poverty statistics, sharecropper, tenant farmer, confiscation act of 1862, congressional reconstruction, digital history, freedman's bureau, historical background of african americans, poverty in america, poverty rates

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