AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Homer Plessy, Sharecropping, Knights Of The White Camelia
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African american able to go to polls. Freedman"s bureau (same slide as previous notes: 40 acres and a mule. Sharecropping: diagram on ppt, usually sharecroppers are left with nothing at the end of the season. As slaves its all of the family: women, men and children (around age 9) almost to death working on the fields. Children now freed can go to school and play. Women didn"t work in fields and decided to take care of children and families and other things. Elderly can live out their lives in peace somewhat that they. Black codes couldn"t in slavery: note: professor said we don"t need to know quotes, many crimes were petty, african americans charged with petty crimes. Ex) vagrancy: homelessness or loitering were an example of what they were charged with (most common: every southern state had their own sets of black codes .
