Question

1. Why did Henry Adams end up staying on the plantation he lived on as a slave after he

was freed from slavery?

Answer 1

He received his freedom in 1865 in Mississippi, where he stayed briefly after the end of the war as a sharecropper. The sharecropping system began after slavery ended: sharecroppers would farm land and receive a share of the crops as payment. Adams then moved… he was made to leave or go back and live as a slave.

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