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What is sharecropping and how did it limit and oppress (take freedom from) Black Americans after the Civil War?​

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Sharecropping is when a landlord allows someone to rent land to farm off of. It oppressed African Americans after the civil war because the landlords would overcharge the African Americans, and take the mass majority of their crops.

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