Writing to Analyze Conflict

Question 3 • Language Arts 8 - ELA3008 IC

Which excerpt from The Land, Part 1 best supports the claim that many formerly enslaved people were not completely free or equal after the war?

Answer

Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home and both of us being strangers here in Mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family.

Mitchell and his family and the other boys lived on my daddy's land, and I figured my daddy with one word could put a stop to Mitchell and the rest. But my daddy said, “What you expect me to do about it?”

The Thomases, like all the other families who lived on my daddy's land, were sharecroppers, and because of that fact, they were obliged to take heed of whatever my daddy or my brothers said.

In the beginning the two of us didn't get along at all. Fact to business, there was a time it seemed like to me Mitchell Thomas lived just to taunt me. There were other boys too who picked on me.

Explanation

Sharecroppers worked land owned by someone else and often had little power over their working conditions. The excerpt says the families were obliged to obey the narrator’s father and brothers because they were sharecroppers. This best shows that, even after the war, formerly enslaved people could remain dependent on white landowners and lack equal freedom.

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