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The families lived on sharecropping land
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Sharecropping was used to keep the land owner in wealth and have workers but still with little pay.
There is no antonym for sharecropping as far as I know.
The only people involved in sharecropping were former slaves.
Land Owners.
They were abused by the land owner
Sharecropping was largely detrimental for newly freed Black Southerners. While it provided some opportunity for land use, it often trapped them in a cycle of debt and poverty due to exploitative contracts and high interest rates on supplies. Sharecroppers had to give a significant portion of their crops to landowners, limiting their ability to achieve financial independence. Ultimately, it perpetuated economic dependency and social inequality, undermining the promise of freedom.
No. Most Southerners - even the majority of WHITE Southerners - owned no land at all.
One drawback to sharecropping for landowners was the lack of an up-front cash payment or the land. Disadvantages for farmers included that they did not build up equity by owning land.