Poor Saul Matthews died a while after he was given freedom. "I know the way in which the I will die, I will be free! I will be me! I will be one with myself and one with the whites!"
he saw his friend reading about them and decided there and then that was what he wanted to do
he used to rob the rich and give to the poor. He also had a gang who all wore green Lincoln clothes
John Steinbeck grew up during the Great Depression and was sympathetic to the plight of the poor and wrote about their many experiences during those trying times .
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The Freedman's Bureau was established by congress in 1865. The purpose was to help former slaves and poor whites in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The answer is "Sharecropper" or African Americans (or I guess whites too) still working on plantations. :)
no they were created after the civil war and they did help them
this is true
What would it be like to live in the south as a freedman during Reconstruction?
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
poll tax
Of course. Everything is the whites' fault.
Poor southern whites fought to defend many things. These people fought to keep their land, their rights, and often their workers.
They allowed poor whites the use of their skilled slaves.
they allowed poor whites the use of their plantation barns use plantation barns They allowed poor whites the use of their skilled slaves
they allowed poor whites the use of their plantation barns use plantation barns They allowed poor whites the use of their skilled slaves