The answer is: They were often still in debt at the end of each harvest.
In sharecropping system, a land owners would give the opportunity for other people to work on their land and get small percentage of profit from the crops that they produced.
At that time, many african americans did not possess the tools that were necessary for taking care of their crops. So landowners rent the tools for them.
The problem is, <em><u>the amount of the rent for the tools often more than the profit that the african american sharecropper gets from their share</u></em>. This made them often still in debt at the end of each harvest.
It was a coercive strategy that's widely used in order to cause intimidation and fear in a political way. This is often done through the means of resistance movements, assassination of political figures, coup de etat, and civil wars inter and intra-state.
The militart was using force to subdue uprisings
On September 30, 1788, Pennsylvania became the first state to elect its two senators. On March 4, 1789, the first group of elected senators reported for duty. From 1789 to 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, senators were elected by state legislatures.
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