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Debt Bondage (Economics and the Law (Landowners could provide loans for…
Debt Bondage
Black Women
Though slavery was brutal, gender equality existed (Douglas-Bowers)
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"Where the Negro works for wages, he tries to keep his wife at home." (Douglas-Bowers)
"if he rents land, or plants on shares, the wife and children help him in the field" (Douglas-Bowers)
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Black Autonomy
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"These attempts to restore families and redirect their labor to serve the need of the household rather than the planter, were integral to the self-sufficiency that freed people sought from sharecropping."(Douglas-Bowers)
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Reconstruction
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After Civil War, South had Economic problems (Douglas-Bowers)
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"The banking system was practically destroyed and, crucially, planters, farmers and landowners could not borrow money to pay freed men to work their land for them."(Douglas-Bowers)
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Economics and the Law
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"By 1915 at least six southern states passed laws allowing forced labor of those encumbered with debt, despite the existence of an 1867 federal law prohibiting debt slavery in the United States" (Barnes)
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"Under certain conditions, a loan by the owner to the cropper for equipment and work stock constituted a lien against the cropper's chore of the proceed's..." (Douglas-Bowers)
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Sharecropping
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"In many cases, at the end of a season, a worker might be paid only one-third of the crop that he or she had produced."(Giesen)
"Poor farmers and former slaves soon found themselves immersed in a system of debt peonage from which few were able to emerge.(Barnes)
