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This 3 page paper discusses the hopes that both African Americans and Southern businessmen had for the "New South"; what they hoped would change, how they tried to achieve their goals, and whether their hopes were realized. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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conflict. This paper discusses the hopes that both African Americans and Southern businessmen had for the "New South"; what they hoped would change, how they tried to achieve their goals,
and whether their hopes were realized. Discussion When the Civil War ended, it brought with it an entirely new situation in the South. The slave system was gone, and although
Southern whites still treated blacks shamefully in many cases, slavery was no longer the law of the land. The goal of most African Americans was to become autonomous; that is,
to finally be in control of their own future. Since the big plantation were still intact, many overseers and owners "grudgingly allowed them to work the land in families, letting
them chose their own supervisors and find their own provisions" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 483). The economy thus shifted from a slave system to one of sharecropping, though only
about 15% of African Americans were able to buy the land they worked (Faragher, et al, 2000). Some former slaves were able to rent land, thus becoming "tenant farmers" (Faragher
et al, 2000, p. 483). Even more importantly perhaps, African Americans began to organize politically, backed by the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment, which promised "full
citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press for better labor contracts, demand greater autonomy for the black
workforce, and agitate for the more radical goal of land confiscation and redistribution" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 483). Clearly, the African American dream for the "New South" is that
it would be a place of equality; and that they would be able to use their skills as farmers to achieve the goal of farming small plots of land. History
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