Which statement best compares slavery and sharecropping?

Both slavery and sharecropping kept workers under landowners’ control and limited their economic independence. Enslaved people were legally owned, while sharecroppers often owed landowners a large share of their crops and could become trapped in debt. Thus, both systems made laborers economically dependent on landowners; sharecropping did not reliably allow workers to save money or gain equality.

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