Reconstruction, for the win !

Reconstruction allowed former slaves to be "freed", or so they thought. In my opinion, sharecropping during reconstruction still had a small meaning of slavery. This means the freed slaves were still basically thought of as slaves, they still did work for owners as they were told to do so. Sharecropping is when a free slave lived on their masters plantation. They were told to give there masters 50% of the crops and pay cash for the tools they used. The masters came out to direct the new landowners, as well. They were told to move stakes of hay, clean the animals, pick the crops, etc. In my opinion, although they were still treated as slaves, they were way better off after reconstruction than during the Civil War. During the Civil War, slaves were treated terrible. Starting with the trade, then when they were actually brought into their masters home they were treated poorly and had to do mass amounts of work. Reconstruction was a 'step forward' for the slaves.