How did the system of sharecropping affect landowners and laborers in the South?

A) The system did not provide landowners with enough profits because laborers often took sizable cuts.

B) The system typically drove laborers off the farms they had worked when they were enslaved and left landowners without workers.

C) The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers' hard work.

D) The system left landowners with mounting piles of debt because laborers had little to no incentives to work the fields.

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Bradley Bruce

20 March, 16:49

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Maximilian · Answer 1

The correct answer is C.