The excerpt below is from an 1879 sharecropping agreement.
"...After payment of said supply bill, the said lessee is to pay to said lessor, in the gin of said
plantation, the rent
cotton herein before stipulated, said rent to be fully paid on or before the
1st day of January
, 1880. All cotton raised on said land is to be ginned on the gin of said
lessor, on said plantation
, and said lessee is to pay $4 per bale for ginning same..."
Source: LSU Shreveport, Noel Memorial Library Archives
Based on the excerpt, how did agreements like this affect the lives of Southerners?
O African Americans found it difficult to escape the cycle of debt peonage.
African Americans were able to save enough money to purchase the land.
O Former plantation owners found it difficult to raise their crops.
O Former plantation owners were forced to sell off their land.

In the post-Civil War South, sharecropping agreements like the one described in the excerpt perpetuated a cycle of debt peonage among both African American and white farmers, trapping them in poverty and dependency on landowners.

Cotton production remained central to the Southern economy, but sharecroppers, lacking land ownership, struggled to break free from debt bondage.

Former slaves and poor whites often became sharecroppers, paying landowners a portion of their crops as rent, perpetuating economic hardship and limited opportunity for land ownership.

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