Please help me if you can, Q1: How did the sharecropping system keep many African Americans in a cycle of poverty and debt?

Q2: Look at the illiteracy rates for African Americans in the South. How do they change between
1880 and 1930?

answer 1 Landowners, short of capital, favoured the system because it did not require them to pay cash wages. ... Many contracts forbade sharecroppers from saving cotton seeds from their harvest, forcing them to increase their debt by obtaining seeds from the landowner. Landowners also charged extremely high interest rates.

Anser 2 Fully 71 percent of black male children ages 10 to 14 were illiterate in 1880. Illiteracy among this age group was cut in half by the turn of the century (to 36 percent) and by another 29 percentage points by 1930. ... For example, 83 percent of females in 1910 could read and write, compared with 77 percent of males.

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