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Free slaves economically--sharecropping forced former slaves back to the land they had worked and kept them indebted to the landholder.
The system of sharecropping meant for a piece of land to farm, a person would owe a portion of their crop to the landholder. This program kept blacks enslaved to the land not allowing them true freedom to leave and become ecnomically independent.
Answer: Blue Ridge Mountains
Explanation: The Piedmont region is to the west of the coast and east to the mount region. It is categorised by tall mountains which were slowly worn away by erosion.
Rivers Dan, Catawba flows from the blue ridge mountains to the Piedmont.
Well Known Piedmont mountain include Pilot mountain and Hanging rock mountain. Which gives room for hiking, fishing and viewing of water falls.
Piedmont has cities such as Charlotte which is the largest city in North Carolina, Durham also known as the 'City of Medicine' and some others.