Both farmers and landowners committed to pay for commodities with future earnings in the crop-lien system that emerged after the Civil War.
From the 1860s until the 1940s, cotton growers in the South of the United States used the crop-lien system as a kind of financing.
The crop lien system permitted farmers in the post-Civil War South to buy supplies such as food and seed on credit from merchants, with the obligation to be returned once the crop was harvested and sent to market.
In the post-Civil War crop-lien arrangement, both farmers and landowners agreed to pay for commodities with future earnings.
Therefore, option A is correct.
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