... , and they frequently got half the crop. The system quickly proved to be disastrous for both poor blacks and whites. Sharecroppers needed more than land to farm. They also required seed, fertilizers, and provisions to live on until the crop was harvested. To obtain these they borrowed against their share. Falling crop prices, high credit rates, and unscrupulous merchants and creditors ... a well educated black woman who was more knowledgeable about the society then those that were in the political parties and those that had power over the system. No matter how bad the lynching may have b...

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