After The Civil War, Many Free Black Americans Were Forced By Economic Necessity Into A System Called Sharecropping, Where They Rented Land From Their Former Slave Owners And. By 1870, sharecropping was the dominant means by which african americans could gain access to land in the south. Still, freedpeople desired independent proprietorship.
By 1870, sharecropping was the dominant means by which african americans could gain access to land in the south. President andrew johnson, a democrat and a former slaveholder, soon restored this land to its white owners, reducing many freed enslaved people to economic dependency on the south’s. After the civil war, the country faced dramatic change as a landscape of farms and.
