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Because some people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because they were not able to pay back the money they borrowed, they often became sharecroppers.

Emancipation caused a labor shortage on the plantations in the South. The former slaves had no money with which to purchase land. Sharecropping was the solution.

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Large planters have no slaves to work in it so many freedmen and poor whites went to work for large planters. In return they gave them a share of crop at harvest time. wht

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so farmers can get labor

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why did freed slaves become sharecroppers

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