Which of These Is NOT a True Statement About the Relationship

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?

A) As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlords and creditors.
B) Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
C) Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcely better than when they were slaves.
D) White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
E) Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.