 
 <prompt> Wetin fundamentally change di nature of Southern agricultural labor? Given di previous question, write a context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context: <response>: ```Cotton remain one key crop for Southern economy afta dem free slaves and Civil War end for 1865. For di South, sharecropping dey happen, wey be say landless black and white farmers dey work land wey others get, and dem go share di profit. Some farmers dey rent di land and dey bear di production cost by themselves. Until mechanical cotton pickers show face, cotton farmers need extra labor to hand-pick cotton. Picking cotton na source of income for families across di South. Rural and small town school systems dey get split vacations so children fit work for di fields during "cotton-picking."``` 