After Reconstruction, many freed African Americans in the South became sharecroppers, a system that most often resulted in
Aa cycle of debt that kept them economically dependent on landowners
Bwidespread ownership of large plantations
Crapid migration to western mining towns
Dfull political and social equality
Explanation
Sharecroppers farmed land in exchange for a share of the crop but frequently fell into lasting debt to landowners, limiting their economic mobility.