Why Did Most Black Families Choose Sharecropping Over Other Forms

question 35

Multiple Choice

Why did most black families choose sharecropping over other forms of agricultural labor during Reconstruction?

• A) White landowners refused to hire freedmen as day laborers or use them in gang labor.
• B) Sharecropping allowed black farmers to make significant profits.
• C) Sharecropping allowed black families to work independently without direct white oversight.
• D) Black workers preferred to work the land under white supervision than toil in factories.

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