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What was one reason why sharecropping began in the south

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Many former slaves still were unedumercated and needed to find jobs this lead to a legal form of work known as share cropping (tending to crops for a portion of the crop or a low wage pay) 
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The answer is The Southern economy and farms had been destroyed during the Civil War.
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