AP African American Studies / Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
3.3 Black Codes, Land, and Labor
Notes
Southern states passed Black Codes to control Black labor. Promises of land ("forty acres and a mule," Sherman's Field Order No. 15) were reversed. Most freedpeople became sharecroppers, often trapped in debt. Convict leasing exploited prisoners.
Practice
"Forty acres and a mule" came from:
1865, later reversed.
Convict leasing was:
Forced labor.
Sharecropping often trapped families in:
Crop liens.
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