The effect of sharecroppers and debt peonage was that they were unable to pay off debts and fell deeper into debt. The weight of the debt bound the sharecropper to the landowner as completely as they had been bound by slavery.
Sarah Goode was the first African American tor receive a patent in 1885 for a bed that folded into a desk
Lincoln’s argument in response to the South’s compact theory was that African American people are people, all the same, no mater the color of skin. And later fallowed the Emancipation Proclamation.
