History opinion?

Question

How might subsequent US history have been different if, during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the plantations of the South had been divided, and ex-slaves had been given plots of land and the means to farm them?

Answer 1

The south would have prospered again under a new sense of freedom, instead of the Northern banks and outlaws trying to take what they could. The US economy would have been 2nd to none by the turn of the century!

Too bad it didn't happen.

Answer 2

Good question, and some good answers above. "Fred" is probably most correct. Actually, many former slaves did become share croppers. They worked portions of the former plantations and shared the proceeds with the owners - who were of course the white men. The main problem is that the war resolved slavery but it did not prevent white supremacy from maintaining the white advantage in the South - and also in the North. Racial prejudice existed in the North after the Civil War as, unfortunately, it still does today. By 1877 the South had essentially "won the peace" as the North gave up trying to enforce real integration or equal opportunity in the South. It would not be until the 1960s, a century later, that true equality would begin to evolve in America as a whole.

Answer 3

In other words, what would have happened had the promise of "Forty acres and a mule" been kept? A great many former slaves would have been murdered, terrorized into fleeing, or would have been forced to become "sharecroppers" working land owned by whites because no white would buy their produce. The conclusion of the Civil War didn't end racial animosity - just witness the vile behavior of today's media conglomerates towards such on-air bigots like Don Imus - that slime is back on the air! Black folks would have discovered that those forty acres would have given them nothing but more misery. There were dozens of hate groups that continued to make life hard for them, exemplified by the KKK. An d we'd have wound up exactly where we are today regarding race relations and human rights in the USA: a land wallowing in its own hypocricy!

Answer 4

I agree with Fred

Having title to land in a hostile area with no capitol or education to engage business would have been a recipe for disaster very few former slaves would have been able to succeed

Answer 5

You want an opinion?
The whites would have found a way to trick the blacks into selling the land back to them and things would still have turned out much the same.
Can't trust the white folk.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Obana would now become the 6th black president of the USA, after Condo has two terms in office.....