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The American South is historically linked to slavery through the antebellum population statistics [1] and the post-Civil War legacy of the institution [2]. Furthermore, the sharecropping system in the American South was described as a state of slavery due to debt-based restrictions on movement {fact:2, fact:3}.
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Debt slavery | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica britannica.com 3 facts
accountFollowing the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, many African Americans and some whites in the rural American South worked as sharecroppers, renting small plots of land from large landowners and pledging a percentage of their crops at harvest.
claimOnce in debt, sharecroppers in the American South were legally forbidden from leaving the landowner's property until the debt was paid, effectively creating a state of slavery.
claimAfrican Americans in the post-Civil War South faced limited options due to racism and the legacy of slavery, and they constituted the bulk of Southern sharecroppers.