Most remained in debt to the land owners and were unable to move away.
They could not afford to buy land, but all they knew was farming. A large number of freed slaves in the South became share croppers, as they could not find other work.
After slaves were freed, they did not have money to buy land or animals to work the land. Many became share croppers and it was much like still being a slave.
people who worked the land were serfs and peasant witch were mostly serfs.Nobles gave the serfs some land and in return the serf would farm and protect there land for them.
A peasant worked the land, but had freedom. A serf was bound to the land that they worked. They would live on the manor of a noble and work the land in exchange for food and protection.
The land owners had the discretion to deduct from our annual earnings for the cotton we harvested what they thought was "fair" for: use of equipment, barns, tractors, trailers, cotton scales, etc. They also often owned the country store where the share croppers cashed their Social Security checks, and deducted a fee for cashing the check, or allowed the share cropper to build up large debts, that ate up any profit by the end of the year.
share croppers
They could not afford to buy land, but all they knew was farming. A large number of freed slaves in the South became share croppers, as they could not find other work.
Sharecroppers were farmers, often African Americans in the Southern United States after the Civil War, who worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops they produced. They were often in a cycle of poverty and debt due to unfair contracts and exploitative practices by landowners.
After slaves were freed, they did not have money to buy land or animals to work the land. Many became share croppers and it was much like still being a slave.
Former slaves that had no land or food to provide for themselves or their family. They started working for the whits and planted crops. They only had enough food to feed themselves and there families. The whites go majority of the crops
sharecroppers were farmers who rented land and paid a share of each years crop as rent; they did not own the land they worked.
Sharecropper is someone who farms land and pays rent for the land using a portion of the crop.
sharecroppers were farmers who rented land and paid a share of each years crop as rented;they did not own the land they worked.
Sharecropping, or share-cropping sounds harmless and benign. In theory tenant ( non-owner) farmers resided and worked on farms and were resposnible for a share of the output= or crop. It sounds benign, like rentals in apartment houses, but in reality was not so even-handed. In effect share-croppers were bound to the land, not by chains or leg-irons ( as in slavery days) but by oppressive contract arrangements- not to different from that of medieval serfs. There were both Black and White share croppers. In theory it sounded benign, in practice it was abusive. There were laws or equivalents of laws in some states that effectively prevented farmers ( both owners and share-croppers, effectively, from changing jobs- with the possible exveption of going into the Armed Forces! ( out of the Frying pan and into the blast Furnace of modern war!) On the other hand the Feds were known to have engaged in various propaganda and educational programs angled at agrarians ( one survival is the the Four-J clubs)- and at times paid farmers NOT to grow crops (in this most labor-intensive job)_ but thiw was done for crop rotation of ( Fallowing) and in more recent times, decontamination of harmful pest control products. so it goes.
If a person stayed too long on a certain land they would have perpetual, or continuing, debt.
sharecropping
Many sharecroppers migrated North in search of work when the trend to till land for others ended due to industrialization. Since they were not getting ahead sharecropping year after year, they were better off moving on and trying to find employment where families could be supported by the income.