After slavery was abolished in the south, what type of cheap labor did plantations rely on? apex

After the slavery was abolished in the south, the type of cheap labor that the plantations rely on is through sharecropping. This is considered to be a form of agriculture in which the tenant has been allowed by a landowner in using his or her land but in exchange of sharing the crops that the tenants produced on the land.

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