Question

9. What did freed Black slaves with no equipment do to pay rent on another person’s land?

Answer 1

Freed Black slaves who had no equipment often engaged in sharecropping as a means to pay rent on another person’s land. Sharecropping was an arrangement where they would farm a portion of land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops produced. This system often kept sharecroppers in a cycle of debt and dependency, as they typically had to borrow supplies and equipment from the landowner, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.