37:575:202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Penal Labour, Sharecropping, Henry Clay Frick
23 Dec 2018
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Changes in america - late 19th century (post-reconstruction) Most blacks still worked in the south post-reconstruction. Laws/practices introduced to discriminate against african americans. To set back african africans make them feel as close to slavery as possible. Never really got their 40 acres and a mule instead worked for their masters. A deal that the person would work the land and then share the crop (50/50) Land owners continue to increase their wealth. Profit that sharecroppers received was not enough to feed the family. Sharecroppers deteriorated social status b/c it was so bad. Many sharecroppers went into debt b/c they did not make enough to live. So deep into debt, needed to make deals that basically made them indentured servants. The ultimate degradation (horrible lowest of the low) People who couldn"t pay the land owners or just got arrested would become this. You could be a slave under the law convict .
