Black Life in the Postbellum South

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Black Life in the Postbellum South

• Slavery by Other Means
• Alexander R. Greenberg

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American Civil War, 1861-1865
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Reconstruction
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Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
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Sharecropping and the Peonage System
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Sharecropping and the Peonage System
Most former slaves continued to live in rural
areas
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Disenfranchisement
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The Spectre of Racial Violence
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Over 2,400 Estimated Lynchings of African
Americans from 1889-1914