Question

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the south during the late 19th century

Answer 1

The major effect of the debt peonage in the 19th century is that the labor system of the black American closed to slavery. The debt peonage is also known as debt slavery. At that time the African American were forced to work to pay the debt. 

Answer 2

Answer:

African Americans worked in a system that was almost identical to slavery.

Explanation:

Debt peonage also knew as debt slavery because it required a worker to work under his master to pay off his debt. After the Civil War, it banned in 1867, but it again came into existence during the Reconstruction period. Many newly freed African Americans moved toward peonage, did sharecropping work to pay off debt through labor.