African American Sharecropping Families Were Likely to Be

question 36

Multiple Choice

African American sharecropping families were likely to be

• A)male-dominated nuclear families.
• B)female-dominated nuclear families.
• C)split families with men working on plantations far away from their wives and children.
• D)matriarchal extended families.

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