How did plantation owners try to perpetuate the slavery system during reconstruction?
by devising and implementing the sharecropping system
by refusing to plant crops unless slavery was reinstated
by urging congress to revoke the thirteenth amendment
by seceding from the union and demanding states' rights

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in about winter like late november to january