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The Importance of Land Grants
In 1866 black southerners reluctantly signed year-long labor contracts with their former owners. In exchange for planting and harvesting crops they received cash food rations or a share of the crop The housing planters offered free people was often former slave cabins or outbuildings. Freed people began to feel that the promise of reconstruction had already been betrayed.