Question

What was the main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War?

Answer 1

The main effect of the system of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the south after the civil war is :
b. african americans were prevented from leaving the plantations where they had been enslaved

So basically those African Americans were trapped into more work for in order to "pay up" their debt

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