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similarity between slavery and sharecropping was that?

Aneither system required workers to pay landowners

Bboth systems paid their workers a very low wage

Cboth systems provided workers with land and supplies

Dneither system paid its workers a wage

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A. FALSE. In the case of the sharecroppers, the owners of the land managed to get them into debt in exchange for food and equipment, and soon they were in debt of money.

B. FALSE. In neither case did the owner of the land have to pay salaries to his workers.

C. FALSE. The land and supplies that both slaves and sharecroppers received did not belong to them.

D. TRUE. Neither system contemplated a salary for the worker.

Answer:

Option D.

Explanation:

Neither system paid its workers a wage, is the right answer.

A kind of agriculture in which a landowner authorizes a tenant to control the land in return for a share of the yields produced on their portion of the land is recognized as the Sharecropping. At the same time, slavery was a system in which slaves are used for working mainly on the plantation without paying any wages or providing good facilities of living. In both the system, the landowner was the only one who enjoyed the profit from the business however workers in neither were paid wages.