Why did most southern blacks prefer sharecropping to wage labor after the Civil War?
(A) Wages were too low to support their families
(B) They preferred the autonomy of farming their own plots
(C) Jobs with wages were competitive, but sharecropping was easy
(D) Not even whites wanted to be wage laborers
Answer: (B) They preferred the autonomy of farming their own plots
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