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How did sharecropping affect farmers in the south during reconstruction?.

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It affected farmers in a negative way because slavery had just ended and farmers didn’t know how to do the work themselves
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Sharecropping allowrd farmers to make more money from land they already had as well as receive a portion of the crops from that land as well
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