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

i dont know but thats a great qusestion

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.