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African slaves resisted enslavement and the Southern plantation economy in a variety of ways, ranging from violent rebellion to sabotage, infanticide, suicide, running away, and the deliberate destruction of plantation property.
If former slaves saw Reconstruction as heralding in a new era of overdue autonomy and equality, most Southern whites reacted to military defeat and emancipation with dismay and anger. Most whites needed to borrow money to resume farming and many small farmers fell into debt and were forced into growing cotton.