Which of These Is NOT a True Statement About the Relationship

question 78

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?

• A) As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlords and creditors.
• B) Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
• C) Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcely better than when they were slaves.
• D) White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
• E) Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.

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