Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved

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land and couldn’t vote to do anything about the land they lost. They had to depend on the whites for survival. Later, the Radical Republicans became a major part of the Congress and passed the Freedman’s Bureau, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The Freedman’s Bureau and the amendments gave the blacks help politically, socially, and economically. Giving the blacks numerous rights, including the right to own land, made the white southerners angry. The blacks were dependent on the Freedman’s Bureau for land until Johnson destroyed it. It took back their land, which took away their money and supplies. The loss of the bureau left no where for the blacks to go. They only had the whites to rely on. 15% of blacks owned their own land, 85% worked on white man’s land to get their money and to survive. The blacks that worked on the white man’s land relied on them through sharecropping. Sharecropping was when white landowners supplied all the seeds, fertilizer, and supplies and the ...

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