Sharecropping was

Question

1 point
a system were poor farmers and many newly freed slaves were trapped in cycles of debt to owners of plantations
the best way for emancipated slaves to work their way to wealth and prosperity
in legal terms, the same as slavery before the civil war
the system of black families in the south joining together in cooperation to purchase large land holdings

Answer 1

a system were poor farmers and many newly freed slaves were trapped in cycles of debt to owners of plantations