5. What change was often seen in the physical arrangement of plantations after the Civil War

After the Civil War (1861-1865), the land was divided into small parcels and started to be rented or sharecropped. At that time slavery was condemned, so former slaves became those sharecroppers who rented the land of plantations in order to stand for a living by producing and sharing the crops. The owners or the new sharecropped demolished slaves' old housing and built new ones near the main house. Besides, owners had to start paying taxes in cash which produced an impoverishment of plantations.