Question

For Black families, sharecropping often devolved into a state of

Group of answer choices

perpetual debt.

citizenship.

prosperity.

independence.

Answer 1

perpetual debt

Step-by-step explanation:

They needed to pay for the land they were using, the tools, the seeds, etc.

Often they didn't have the money for this, so they had to borrow from the owner of the land. Sharecropping was a new form of slavery, perhaps worse. Technically you could break free, but that hope was behind an ever-growing mound of debt.