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Yes, sharecropping led to what some have described as '' economic slavery '' because the former slave was uneducated, easily misled, manipulated and was exploited by the land owner. There was really no "sharing"at all. Rather, it allowed the continued oppression of the former slaves. Sharecropping was a system of farming that arose at the end of the Civil War.
The freed slaves were poor and uneducated. Farmers would make an arrangement with the sharecropper under which the former slaves would farm the land under strict supervision, purchase their supplies from the farmer, use his machinery and pay the farmer with a large portion of the crop, plus interest. The owner took the majority of the harvests while the sharecroppers family existed on the edge of starvation. The sharecropper could never pay off their debt to the landowner and remained dirt poor. All they had to offer was their labor and they had to use their labor to scratch out a living. They lived in abject poverty. The system eventually involved poor whites also. It was a system that was filled with cruelty, abuse, dishonesty and corruption.
A related system was the crop lien system. The crop lien system kept many farmers in debt to merchants and banks in much the same was a sharecropper was always in debt to the landowner. They could never catch up and earn any actual profits.
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Who did sharecropping affect?
sharecropping affected African Americans and poor whites.
Which of the following did not restrict voting rights of African Americans after 1867?
sharecropping=)
Does sharecropping still exist?
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Does sharecropping still exist in the deep south?
no
A farming system that replaced the wage labor system?
sharecropping
Which is true about sharecropping as a way of life in the South?
continued after 1960s
What is a antonym for sharecropping?
There is no antonym for sharecropping as far as I know.
How do you use sharecropping in a sentence?
The families lived on sharecropping land
What type of life did sharecropping and tenant farming drive freedman into?
It drove whites and blacks together socially.
Who did sharecropping affect?
sharecropping affected African Americans and poor whites.
Use the word sharecropping in a sentence?
Cesar had done sharecropping with his neighbor's.
Which of the following did not restrict voting rights of African Americans after 1867?
sharecropping=)
How did farmers' alliances help poor farmers to keep their farms?
Sharecropping
Is sharecropping illegal?
Sharecropping is not an illegal enterprise unless one side has to much authority to change the agreement. In the Old South, the practice of sharecropping was inherently unfair.
What are the advantages of sharecropping?
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How were workers paid in a sharecropping system?
They were allowed to have part of the final crop, hence the name sharecropping.
How was sharecropping a cause of the Civil War?
sharecropping did not cause the civil war but it happened after when they couldnt have slaves anymore
