1. The Ineffectiveness of the Reconstruction Era
... . Document D depicts how sharecropping was a continuous cycle of poverty that kept laborers in work. It also shows how the laborer would acquire debt leaving them to work more. From Document A "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery" conveys that the slaves gained freedom but they were resorted back to a different type of slavery, which was ... sharecropping. Freedmen didn't choose to move back toward slavery, they had to resort back to that concept because it was all they knew. The rises of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) led to riots against A...
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