The State of Louisiana. It was known as a major cotton producer <span>and the first to be carved from the Louisiana Purchase, had </span>entered the Union as a slave state<span>.
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I believe the correct answer would be "women earn about 75% of what men earn" although I believe the actual number is around 20% less than what men earn. It's quite unfair.
<span>The collapse of Reconstruction ended African Americans' hopes of being granted their own land in the South. Instead, many returned to plantations owned by whites, where they either worked for wages or became tenant farmers, paying rent for the land which they farmed.</span>
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