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Digital History: From Slave Labor to Free Labor

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The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. Learn how plantation owners and freed slaves adapted to this massive shift in the economy. Includes many primary source images.

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sharecropping
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reconstruction labor shortage, southern economy, southern economy after civil war, southern economy after slavery, economic response to end of slavery, end of slavery, response to end of slavery, sharecropping system, slave labor, tenant farming, wage labor, african americans and reconstruction
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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