Sharecropping is an arrangement with a land owner who rents out their land to a farmer for the payment of a percentage of the crop instead of cash.
The land owner get 50% of the profits without effort or risk.
If the crop failed, the sharecroppers could not pay off the loan for the seed. The sharecroppers then were in debt to the landowner at the start of the next growing season. The result was that the sharecropper though free were enslaved to the landowner by the debt
The correct answer is: "The sharecroppers were benefited least from a sharecropping arrangement, they did all of the work, took all of the risks, and got very little in return".