Negative Effects Of Sharecropping

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The Reconstruction affected the freed slaves economically, politically, and socially. There is no doubt that Freed slaves had no clothes and money plus black people voting rights were taken away. The African-Americans had negatives things, such as Sharecropping, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Sharecropping was the biggest economical reason that affected the freed slaves during reconstruction. Sharecropping means that the slaves had to give a portion of whatever they grew to their land owners. It was not a fair contract between the owners and the slaves, because the contract was mainly on the land owner’s side. In ‘’Sharecropping lesson plan’’, the author quotes,‘’Nothing can be sold from their (sharecroppers’) crops until my rent is all paid, and all amounts they owe me are paid in full.’’Basically the shop croppers couldn’t sold their crops, if their rent is not paid. This is why Sharecropping was the biggest economical reason that affected the freed slaves. …show more content…

The Fourteenth Amendment mainly focus on all men or women are created equal. But in the ‘’Plessy v. Ferguson’’ article, the author quote, ''Separate but equal’’ means that even though the black and white people are not together, but both of the races will be provided with public facilities, such as drinking fountains, hotels, toilets and education. These laws were called the Jim Crow laws. The supreme court says that separation does not mean that one is less equal. If blacks were to take it differently so it would be their own fault. The reconstruction amendment can make them equal, but socially you can’t change people’s hearts, and that doesn't change how white people looks at