Generally, how long did sharecropping dominate agriculture in Oklahoma and the rest of the Cotton Belt?

Sharecropping became widespread in the South after the Civil War, when formerly enslaved people and poor farmers worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crop. It remained a major agricultural system through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, declining during the Great Depression. Therefore, the best answer is “from the Civil War until the Great Depression.”

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