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What were the effects of sharecropping and debt peonage as practiced in the united states?

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The effect of sharecroppers and debt peonage was that they were unable to pay off debts and fell deeper into debt. The weight of the debt bound the sharecropper to the landowner as completely as they had been bound by slavery.
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