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Many African-Americans turned to sharecropping after the Civil War and continued to live in poverty.

Many African-Americans turned to sharecropping after the Civil War and continued to live in poverty.

 

Many African-Americans turned to sharecropping after the Civil War and continued to live in poverty.

Brown Brothers, Sterling, PA
 
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