sharecropping
Sharecropping, which effectively tied people to the land they worked on
Share cropping.
Transportation systems were more developed in the North than in the South.
Sharecropping was the main labor system in the South after the Civil War. It seemed like a fair idea, but it ended up very similar to slavery. It would keep the laborer in constant debt.
The basic problem with labor in the South after the Civil War was that nobody was around to do it. The South was very rural and without any slaves around, it was hard to find workers.
Sharecropping
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
tenant farming
Tenant and Sharecropping
To regain their control of land and labor, Southern planters turned to two systems that kept African Americans under their control.
sharedillon
large areas of land and slave labor
labor shortages, slavery and cash crops led to the development of the Plantation system.
large areas of land and slave labor