Why did the practices of sharecropping and tenant farming lead to a continuation of life similar to slavery for black Americans?

During Reconstruction, freed slaves were forced to work for large landowners-- mostly rich white people-- because they [black people] lacked capital and land of their own. Former slaves were literally forced to work in the plantation and give half the crops (usually cottons) to their landlords.

Sharecropping system did allow former slaves a sense of freedom and autonomy, but it was under the white oversees under the Freedman's Bureau.

Explanation:

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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it was the first major victory for the colonists.