The system of debt slavery in the South continued until after World War II, when it gradually died out due to the widespread mechanization of farming and the movement of African Americans to better-paying industrial jobs in the North during the Great Migration.

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  Debt slavery | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

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• Debt slavery | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica www.britannica.com Britannica via serper

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• American South location
• World War I event