How did sharecropping limit the prospects of african-americans?

Although sharecropping gave African Americans autonomy in their daily work and social lives, it often resulted in sharecroppers owing more to the landowner for the use of tools and other supplies. As a result, they lived in a cycle of debt; buying goods on credit and then falling to make enough money on their crops

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freedom of speech is also protected by the 1 amendment.

explanation:

here is pretty much what the 1st amendment says:

congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.