All of the following statements about sharecropping are true EXCEPT that

A) many freedmen continued to live on their former masters' land.
B) sharecroppers gave up about one-third to one-half of their harvest to landlords.
C) the practice fostered the economic dependence of Southern blacks.
D) the system allowed the tenants to work at their own pace.
E) tenant farmers independently selected the crops that they wanted to cultivate.


E

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