Why did southern white landowners prefer the sharecropping system to wage labor after the Civil War?
(A) Paying wage laborers was too expensive
(B) They made more money off the sharecropping system
(C) Sharecropping kept blacks bound to servitude as agricultural laborers
(D) Sharecropping required less work
Answer: (C) Sharecropping kept blacks bound to servitude as agricultural laborers
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