According to Benjamin E. Mays, __________
A) his family was never able to make it through the year without taking out a loan
B) many sharecroppers were quite wealthy
C) most sharecroppers would have preferred to grow something other than cotton
D) sharecropping served the interests of black farmers quite well
Answer: A
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