Sharecropping, Shackles, Sugar, and Shipyards: Tracing and Contrasting Rural and Urban Black Labor in Louisiana During and After Radical Reconstruction, 1867-90
Open AccessThis paper examines the three predominant forms of Black labor in Louisiana during the late nineteenth century – sharecropping and unfree agricultural, industrial convict, and unskilled and semi-skilled in New Orleans – beginning with radical Reconstruction in 1867 and ending with the century’s apex of urban worker empowerment in 1890. This thesis ultimately argues that each of these forms of Black labor proved crucial to the economic and political vitality of post-Civil War Louisiana, and the state’s governing Democratic elites took measures to bring them under tighter state control throughout the century. It further asserts that by the turn of the century – and as best evidenced at the 1898 state constitutional convention – lawmakers’ overwhelming desire to exert control over and benefit from Black labor directly contributed to racially segregationist policies that culminated in the adoption of Jim Crow in the state.
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