Answer:
<h2>A state of virtual slavery </h2>
Explanation:
Sharecropping was the system in which the landowner gives plots of land to a tenant in exchange for a share of harvest. It allowed the tenants to produce more to stay tied to the land.
In the southern US black families rented lands from the white owners and raised crops like rice, tobacco and cotton. The landlords and merchant used to lease the equipment credit, food, fertilisers and seeds on credit until the harvest season.
But this system was not different from slavery as unpredictable harvests, high interest rates kept the black families indebted and the debts had to cried over to the next year. The laws which required the harvest to be sold only to the landlord and prevented the former slaves from changing their landlord if they were indebted to them.
Two third of all the sharecroppers were white and one third were black. Sharecropping faded away in 1940's due to mechanisation, great depression and various other factors in 1940's.
Answer: Allowing interstate commerce to be dominated by powerful monopolies.
Explanation:
Here's the complete question:
All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that . . . the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery . . . that would result from the aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and (businesses) controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the entire business of the country, including the production and sale of the necessaries of life." —Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1911
In this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against —
John Marshall Harlan, was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from from 1877 till when he died in 1911.
In this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against allowing interstate commerce to be dominated by powerful monopolies.
He believes that when interstate commerce is left in the hands of few, powerful individuals, it is a form of slavery as the businesses will only look to extort the people and make more profit and do things that'll only be beneficial to them.
