Sharecropping didn't work for the farmer because sharecroppers were almost always
in debt to the landowner.

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It is true that Sharecropping didn't work for the farmer because sharecroppers were almost always in debt to the landowner.

During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, sharecropping represented an option for former slaves to rent portions of land, work and grow cash crops that had to be given to the landowner. Farmers kept a portion of the crops. It represented a form of independence for farmers but in reality, this was not the case. Under the sharecropping system, most farmers were almost always in debt to the landowner.

du boi was considered a radical because he wanted the immediate end for segregation. the biggest different between him and booker t. washington is that, even though washington believed that segregation should be considered illegal, he did not believe at all that a law was needed to keep blacks away from whites and that this would be something natural (to have the races apart) for a long time until society adjusted, while du boi believe that agitation was the only way to end segregation.