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deprivation suffered by southern African Americans prior to the Great Migration has been well documented. Plantation agriculture such as sharecropping limited African Americans to gain and work up the "agricultural ladder". The agricultural ladder was a system in which a worker's status determined their position, not how skilled or valuable they were. Because of segregation, African-American men were placed in agricultural jobs and women were placed in domestic services. These conditions had little to no

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