Sharecropping:
a. was a compromise between african-americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor.
b. became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity.
c. was preferred by african-americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).
d. meant that african-americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks.
e. was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of south carolina and georgia.