Supplied the tools and determined the crops
The term used to refer to the action of paying a landowner to plant and harvest a crop is "sharecropping".
Sharecropping.
Sharecropping
The landowners both had former slaves and poor whites working for them.
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Sharecropping helps both parties, the landowner and the "sharecropper". The landowner gets an "on-site" tenant, that works for a reduced rate. The "sharecropper" gets a portion of the harvest as payment for their labor, and low cost or no cost housing. Simply, a sharecropper is a tenant who participates in the business, and has the opportunity to profit from it.
Sharecropping
Sharecropping itself is not illegal, but the exploitative practices often associated with it can be illegal, such as unfair land rental agreements or poor labor conditions. Some countries have laws regulating agricultural arrangements like sharecropping to protect the rights of tenants and prevent exploitation.
Sharecropping, in which a wealthy landowner rents land to farmers in exchange for a share of their crops
sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land