Question

Did sharecropping promote African American independence or continue the cycle of systematic oppression during Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Sharecropping became widespread in the South as a response to economic upheaval caused by the end of slavery during and after Reconstruction. Sharecropping was a way for very poor farmers, BOTH white and black, to earn a living from land owned by someone else.

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