White Farmers in the Late Nineteenth-Century South

White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South

A) by and large owned their own land.
B) included many sharecroppers involved in the crop-lien system.
C) refused to grow cotton because it had been a "slave crop."
D) were all enormously prosperous following the end of the Civil War.
E) saw their debts decrease as crop prices went up from 1870 to 1900.