Question

In what ways is share cropping similar to slavery?

Answer 1

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During Reconstruction, former slaves and many small white farmers became trapped in a new system of economic exploitation known as sharecropping. Lacking capital and land of their own, former slaves were forced to work for large landowners. Initially, planters, with the support of the Freedmen's Bureau, sought to restore gang labor under the supervision of white overseers. But the freedmen, who wanted autonomy and independence, refused to sign contracts that required gang labor. Ultimately, sharecropping emerged as a sort of compromise.

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Answer 2

Both of them, usually at least for the slaves, worked the lands and plantations for their owners. Both had to share with the owner, what they had. Both had their work depending on the land that someone else owned. Both were poor, and most, both sharecroppers and slaves, were uneducated.