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African Americans were directly impacted by the historical institution of slavery, as evidenced by the post-Civil War transition to sharecropping [1], the systemic limitations imposed by the legacy of slavery [2], and the comparison of sharecropping conditions to debt slavery [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.
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.
claimSharecropping provided more autonomy than slavery for African Americans and enabled families to stay together, though these advantages were minor compared to the poverty and hardships of debt slavery.