How did the end of slavery affect agriculture in the South?

Answer 1

Gentlemen who knew nothing about farming or physically were unable to do it himself no longer had free labor to do all the work. Having to pay for labor meant less or no profit so many farm owners folded. Today we have people that become wealthy by making or promising large donations to political candidates in exchange for laws that will assure laborers do not command high wages and all profits from their labor goes to specific (wealthy) people.
Slavery did not necessarily end, it just became creative government- land owners once provided some food, shelter and clothing, corporations now can pay below the cost of providing these items.

Answer 2

Although they existed before the civil war, tenant farms and share cropping became common. Instead of large plantations with centralized operations worked by slaves, the land was divided up into small tenant farms, where the land owner held title to the land and leased it to small farmers in exchange for a share of their crop. Many freed blacks and poor whites became 'share croppers'. This was good and bad. Good in that the it gave a livelihood to many that would otherwise be utterly destitute and it was a way to get the land worked without slaves, but bad in that it provided nothing beyond subsistence for the farmer while the landowner continued to reap the most benefit and controlled what was grown and sold.

Answer 3

Well, what labor had up to then been done by the slaves now had to be paid for. The former plantation owners had to hire their former slaves to work a part of their land for them and charge them rent. It was called sharecropping. The slaves weren't much better off financially under this system, but they were free.

Answer 4

prompted technological changes in agriculture

Answer 5

Not much. Technology was taking over at the time and machines were being built to take the place of most slaves.

Answer 6

Duh.. white people had to pick their own cotton.