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Read the passage below to answer the question.
Without land of their own, many blacks were drawn into schemes where they worked a portion of the land owned by whites for a share of the profit from the crops. They would get all the seeds, food, and equipment they needed from the company store, which allowed them to run a tab throughout the year and to settle up once the crops, usually cotton, were gathered. When accounting time came, the black farmer was always a few dollars short of what he owed the landowner, so he invariably began the new year with a deficit.
- The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, Trudier Harris, 1995
Based on this excerpt, how did the economy of the South change in the 1870s?
High prices increased the demand for agricultural crops.
Workforce reduction limited the ability of farmers to profit from crops.
Limited work opportunities encouraged mass migration to other areas.
Sharecropping replaced slavery as the main labor system.
Without land of their own, many blacks were drawn into schemes where they worked a portion of the land owned by whites for a share of the profit from the crops. They would get all the seeds, food, and equipment they needed from the company store, which allowed them to run a tab throughout the year and to settle up once the crops, usually cotton, were gathered. When accounting time came, the black farmer was always a few dollars short of what he owed the landowner, so he invariably began the new year with a deficit.
- The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, Trudier Harris, 1995
Based on this excerpt, how did the economy of the South change in the 1870s?
High prices increased the demand for agricultural crops.
Workforce reduction limited the ability of farmers to profit from crops.
Limited work opportunities encouraged mass migration to other areas.
Sharecropping replaced slavery as the main labor system.
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Sharecropping replaced slavery as the main labor system.
The passage describes formerly enslaved Black farmers working land owned by whites for a share of the crop and being kept in debt by company stores and yearly accounting — a description of the sharecropping system that emerged in the South after the Civil War.
The passage describes formerly enslaved Black farmers working land owned by whites for a share of the crop and being kept in debt by company stores and yearly accounting — a description of the sharecropping system that emerged in the South after the Civil War.
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