Question

What did share cropping do for former slaves?

Answer 1

Explanation: While share cropping gave African Americans autonomy in their daily work and social lives, and freed them from the gang-labor system that had dominated during the slavery era, it often resulted in share cropping owing more to the landowners (For the use of tools and other supplies. For example they were able to repay. Some blacks managed to acquire enough money to move from sharecropping to renting or owning land by the end of 1860s. Although many went into debt or were forced by poverty or the threat of violence to sign unfair and exploitative sharecropping.

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Answer 2

Sharecropping allowed slaves to own part of the field that their slavers owned.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sharecropping, what I call slavery 2.0, involved the purchase of a portion of land that former slaves would cultivate. The owner of the land would collect a sizable portion of the crops to sell and leave the remaining for the former slave to either sell for rent or eat. This trapped former slaves, leaving them in debt so that they were still providing for their former slavers and too broke to move elsewhere.