After the Civil War, many free black Americans were forced by economic
necessity into a system called sharecropping, where they rented land from
their former slave owners and
Choose 1 answer:
shared the proceeds from their harvests with other farmers within
the broader cooperative.
bought shares on the commodities market with the profits they
made from selling their crop yields.
paid rent on the land by giving part of their crop yield back to the
landowner.