Alternate Forms of

Slavery During
Reconstruction
By Nina Boggan

The End of Slavery

13th amendment was passed January 31,
1865, and it officially abolished slavery or
any type of involuntary servitude
Caused plantation owners to lose their
main source of income
Plantation owners began to conspire on
how to regain their political power

Slaves Who Stayed

Some former slaves where told they would
be paid as long as they stayed on their
plantations
Some where threatened to remain on the
plantation
Slaves who were paid received as little as
a few cents a day, not enough to live in the
outside world

Sharecroppers and
Tenant Farmers
Tenant farmer someone who farms
rented land
Sharecropper a tenant farmer who pays
rent with a portion of crops
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers where
often in debt

Black Codes
Designed to keep African Americans as
laborers who worked for whites
Included curfews, denying the right to
vote, requirements to be in service of
whites