Sharecropping:
a. meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks
b. was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor
c. was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia
d. became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity
e. was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision)