Question

most emancipated african - americans who remained on their former plantations worked as what? sharecroppers mechanics blacksmiths

Explanation:

After emancipation, many African - Americans who stayed on former plantations became sharecroppers. Sharecropping was a system where they farmed the land in exchange for a share of the crop. Mechanics and blacksmiths were different skilled trades not the main occupation for those remaining on plantations.

Answer:

sharecroppers