Question

How did the end of the Civil War most affect plantation owners?

Answer 1

Answer: Some plantations were sold for unpaid taxes or were sold to carpetbaggers. Sometimes the plantation owners would sell or give parcels to former slaves. Plantation houses, made of wood, often burned for reasons unrelated to the Civil War, and they were subject to storms and lightning.

Answer 2

The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. Planters found it hard to adjust to the end of slavery. ... Out of the conflicts on the plantations, new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery.