CLUSTER 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sharecropping, Masculinity, Racialization
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How slave families were affected during and after the civil war period. Allows slaves to slow down work as well as give opportunity to escape. Targeting black men to make join voluntary or enlistment. Wives and children created communities to support one another. Most blacks forced to stay near plantations- economically dependent on whites. Whites believe blacks must be compelled to work. Forced to take whatever jobs they could get. Blacks were able to work by their own decision. Squad group == intermediary phase between gang labor and family sharecropping. Freed people providing and caring for one another. Out of the field city life ad schooling. Freed people sought wore and food in the city and away from the war torn country side. Touches on the stereotypes black women were subject to and relates to how they developed over time. When you attribute race to some thing not typically about race.
