Following 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.

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  Debt slavery | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

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• sharecropping concept
• American South location