How is sharecropping similar to slavery?

It subjects the sharecropper to the will of the master.

After the radical reconstruction, where radical republicans fought for black freedom, the right to vote, and right to hold public offices, the African-Americans (AA) in the South were not happy because their former slaves were now entitled to the same rights as they were and the south was a very racist place. Using the compromise of 1877 which granted power in the south over to white racists, the Racist southern leaders used sharecropping as a way to immense AA in debt and turn them offer to masters, most often their former slave masters, to serve their debt. In some ways, this is slavery because the AA had to work for people who they owed and who most often paid them less and cheated them because most AA were illiterate. It was slavery with a different way