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During Reconstruction, freed slaves were forced to work for large landowners-- mostly rich white people-- because they [black people] lacked capital and land of their own. Former slaves were literally forced to work in the plantation and give half the crops (usually cottons) to their landlords.
Sharecropping system did allow former slaves a sense of freedom and autonomy, but it was under the white oversees under the Freedman's Bureau.
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