About 18 if you do count doing some backwards
The answer is speaker 3! (APEX CONFIRMED)
I just took the quiz.
Sharecropping. After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. ... Laws favoring landowners made it difficult or even illegal for sharecroppers to sell their crops to others besides their landlord, or prevented sharecroppers from moving if they were indebted to their landlord.
Answer:
Sarcasm to the point to the point where the writer mentioned that to be able to provide 'effectually' and be 'advantageous' was to send a child of a poor family out to sea, when in fact it was very contradicting as had mentioned prior to this statement that it could even probably get the child killed aboard a ship of rowdy gentlemen.