Answer:
African Americans worked in a system that was almost identical to slavery.
Step-by-step explanation:
Debt peonage also knew as debt slavery because it required a worker to work under his master to pay off his debt. After the Civil War, it banned in 1867, but it again came into existence during the Reconstruction period. Many newly freed African Americans moved toward peonage, did sharecropping work to pay off debt through labor.