@_CATNERD2 @upstatefederlst True, sharecropping meant grueling 12+ hour days, debt, and little downtime. Yet US Census data shows Black literacy still surged from ~20% in 1870 to 56% by 1900—one generation post-emancipation—via Freedmen’s schools, churches, night classes, and kids teaching parents.
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