ALABAMA TENANT FARMERS & SHARECROPPERS 1865 --PRESENT Created by: Mrs. V. Looser Lanett High School, Lanett City Schools, Lanett, Alabama This lesson was created as a part of the Alabama History Education Initiative, funded by a generous grant from the Malone Family Foundation in 2009.
Alabama tenant Farmers & Sharecroppers 1865 --Present. Created by: Mrs. V. Looser Lanett High School, Lanett City Schools, Lanett, Alabama This lesson was created as a part of the Alabama History Education Initiative, funded by a generous grant from the Malone Family Foundation in 2009. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ALABAMA TENANT
FARMERS&
SHARECROPPERS
1865 --PRESENT
Created by: Mrs. V. LooserLanett High School, Lanett City Schools, Lanett, AlabamaThis lesson was created as a part of the Alabama History Education Initiative, funded by a generous grant from the Malone Family Foundation in 2009.
PICTURE COMPARISON What did you see in the first picture? What did you see in the second picture? Are there similarities? Are there
differences ? What time period do you think they
represent? How do you think that these
photographs would compare with what you have read about slavery? Have the lives of African-Americans changed much since they were enslaved based upon these photos?
ALABAMA: 1865 Slaves were freed in July, 1865 by the
proclamation of Governor Lewis E. Parsons
Freed slaves left plantations to move to cities or to look for their family members
Freedmen’s Bureau did not deliver “40 acres and a mule”
Land values dropped Almost no farm income Landowners had no money to pay
wages to freedmen or poor whites
ECONOMIC DILEMMA Whites owned most of the land suitable
for agriculture, but had no cash Freedmen would have to make up the
farm work force Freedmen only had their ability to work Share-based system developed to revive
the farm economy If a freedman only had his labor to offer,
he typically got ⅓ of crop If he had animals and equipment, he