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The “New South”

The “New South”. Agriculture in the aftermath of emancipation. The majority of Southern Farmers were not flourishing. Most farms were worked by someone who did NOT own the land. Debt Peonage. Sharecropping tenant farming crop lien system. Sharecropping.

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The “New South”

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  1. The “New South” Agriculture in the aftermath of emancipation

  2. The majority of Southern Farmers were not flourishing • Most farms were worked by someone who did NOT own the land

  3. Debt Peonage • Sharecropping • tenant farming • crop lien system

  4. Sharecropping • Sharecropper works the land in return for supplies and a share of the crop • prices were low so the laborer never gets out of debt • many former slaves couldn’t read & write and were easy to cheat

  5. Tenant Farming • Laborer lives on the land which belongs to someone else • May own their own mule & plow, etc. • usually got a larger share than a sharecropper • still very difficult to escape debt

  6. Crop Lien System • Country merchants furnished supplies to farmers in return for liens (mortgages) on their crops • the merchants charged mark-ups and interest because they took the financial risk • concentrated on one cash crop

  7. Drawbacks to all Three • Land owners had to have labor • prices for cotton were low • poor whites resented blacks • although free, the blacks were still trapped

  8. Early Success Results in Backlash • Rise in violence against blacks • Ku Klux Klan formed as a “social club” for former Confederate officers • rise in frequency of lynching

  9. Compromise of 1877 • Double election returns from 3 states • Hayes promised to remove Federal troops from the south if he was declared the winner

  10. Compromise of 1877, cont. • The Democrats once again gained control of the South • began a determined campaign to take away rights from blacks that had been gained by Reconstruction following the Civil War

  11. THE END

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