That's exactly what plantation owners did, we learned today. Since slavery was outlawed, they just tricked former slaves into signing deals with the devil, giving them a long list of things they had to do in return for half the crops. Essentially, they were blackmailed into becoming in debt, and therefore slaves to the land owners. Again. Not so great for them, eh?
Yesterday we spent the first half of class reading a eulogy of the president Andrew Johnson, and then later discussing what he did after the death of Abraham Lincoln, his political views, and his motivations against the radical Republicans.
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