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After reconstruction, why were many African Americans trapped on the land they farmed

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Answer: Newly freed African Americans had no money to purchase supplies needed to farm and no land to farm it on. They were forced to rent land from plantation owners and purchase supplies from local country merchants on credit through the crop-lien system.

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