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What was the main way that African American farmers got out of the debt that they incurred as sharecroppers?

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They worked in factories to earn extra wages to pay off their debts.

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The main way in which African American farmers got out of the debt that they incurred as sharecroppers was to work for so long that they could eventually buy the tools and land they had been using, but this was relatively rare.
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