former slaves
redistributing plantation lands to former slaves
The South's economy was a farming economy. Many plantation owners relied on slaves work on the plantations.
former slaves
Greed
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sharecropping
They were usually assured of steady employment.
The Black Codes
It use to be a plantation owned by a man whose last named was Haughville. When slavery was abolished, he sold his plantation to his former slaves. They were glad to buy the land in which they called their own. The land was called Haughville, named after the former plantation owner himself.
Those were "field hands".
It helped them to own their own land for farming -APEX