Sharecropping

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=What is Sharecropping=

Sharecropping is when a owner of land allows a tenant to use there land & in return a share of the crop produced. A sharecropper is a person who enters a agreement with a land owner to farm the land. They need to pay a part of the rent from the money they get from the crop sales. It is when two people share one part of land with a crop on it. It was when some one wanted land but could not get some so they shared with someone else.

people were drawn in to schemes where they work part of the land. the land was owened by whites. the people had to share a profit of the crops. The crops where mostly cotton at that time. Somebody farming someone elses land.The farmer gives the landowner part of the croprather then money.The meaning of share cropping is small farmers & tenant.



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//**About sharecropping**// //**The meaning of sharecropping**// //**Small farmers and tenants**// **TRANSITION FROM SLAVE TO SHARECROPPER** Former slaves would be forced to sign a “contract” that stated that they could stay on the land if they worked. This benefited the white plantation owners. The black people would work for them for incredibly low salaries. They also might not work for money. They might work for food or a small house.
 * //Definitions for sharecropping//**

The black people would most of the time be forced into this because they had no were to stay, needed food, or needed money. At best, sharecropping families, often African Americans, made a few hundred dollars per year. At worst, they became stuck in never-ending debt. Sharecropping became the dominant form of labor in the South after the U.S. Civil War. When combined with racially discriminatory laws enacted after Reconstruction, created an exploitative work situation for African Americans.





=Where sharecroping start=

It was blacks working with othe blacks.
African Amercans work better as slaves than sharecropers. Blacks receved little money.Freed slaves started it in the south.The crops were not sperated equally.