When sharecropping was first developed, what did it offer to african americans?

Sharecropping allowed African Americans to have a sense of freedom, because basically in this system, you would take care of someone's else crops, if the had a good harvest, you would get a share. Sharecropping offered African Americans a sense of freedom, and also food.

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It can provide a social code to protect each citizen's future economical earnings. and then obviously defending the country from invading countries.