Yup, sure sounds like "slavery" to me. WVU called MWV...they want their degree back from your dumb ***! You wasted their time and your money.
* some Plantation owners even granted plots of land to sharecroppers as enticements to stay following emancipation!
excerpt:
"During the final months of the Civil War, tens of thousands of freed slaves left their plantations to follow General William T. Sherman‘s victorious Union Army troops across Georgia and the Carolinas. In January 1865, in an effort to address the issues caused by this growing number of refugees, Sherman issued Special Field Order Number 15, a temporary plan granting each freed family 40 acres of land on the islands and coastal region of Georgia. The Union Army also donated some of its mules, unneeded for battle purposes, to the former slaves
When the war ended three months later, many freed African Americans saw the “40 acres and a mule” policy as proof that they would finally be able to work their own land after years of servitude. Owning land was the key to economic independence and autonomy"
Sharecropping: A History
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sharecropping
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