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Black Sharecroppers

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The author describes reconstruction as a troublesome and difficult time for slaves to be integrated into society. They tell us that the African Americans were taken advantage of and it was like they were back in slavery all over again. The text said, "...many black sharecroppers found themselves enslaved once again." The African American sharecroppers were not treated as equal as the Emancipation Proclamation said they would be. The text said, "Many sharecroppers experienced bad treatment." It went on to say, "Sharecroppers were not always given the promised portions of the crops they helped harvest, or...to sell their share to anyone besides the landowner." They were treated unfairly. The text said, "Landowners sometimes sold sharecroppers

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