Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Black Americans and Plantation Life
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
outlawed slavery in 1865. Nonetheless, many black Americans
in the South had no recourse but to remain on the lands of
their former masters, working for low wages and under only
slightly better conditions. By the turn of the century, many
black Americans began to leave the South in search of a
better life. Limited work opportunities in both the North
and South, however, as well as racial intolerance, kept many
others on the plantations. Some landowners persuaded
generations of black workers to remain on plantations and
farms with promises of higher wages and good
treatment.
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