Pros and cons of sharecropping for the sharecroppers

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Assignment:

Sharecropping became the dominant system of labor for newly freed African Americans in the cotton and tobacco states. What were the pros and cons of sharecropping for the sharecroppers? And for the land owners?
How did southern state governments attempt to limit the freedom of African Americans after emancipation?
How did Congress and the Freedmen's Bureau respond to these efforts to limit African American freedoms? Why was emancipation not enough according to African American leaders (such as those attending the North Carolina Freedmen's Convention)?

Your answers for the above questions should be roughly 150 to 250 words for each question.

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