It kept the black farmers poor and dependent on white landowners.
Sharecropping was often referred to as a new form of slavery because tenants were bound to their landowners economically, much like slaves were tied to their owners. Sharecroppers rarely had autonomy or control over their own lives and were often kept in cycles of debt and poverty, similar to the conditions faced by slaves. Additionally, sharecroppers were often subject to exploitative contracts and harsh treatment by landowners.
sharecropping replaced slavery
Sharecropping
slavery but also the oppressive sharecropping system
Slavery is illegal in the terms it was used in the 1800's in the United States. Slavery is still alive in some African countries as well as parts of Asia. The people who are engaged in sharecropping always have the choice to leave the farm and go somewhere else. Slaves don't. Modern sharecropping is also under the control of a mutually-agreed-upon contract which spells out the responsibilities and benefits to both parties which can be enforced by a court of law. Sharecropping you are not forced to live at the place you are. Slavery you are forced by your will to work. Sharecropping you have to pick stuff from other peoples land in which you are living on. You give the landowners how ever much they want. In slavery you are not allowed to keep anything.
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.
it wasnt really good because it was pretty much slavery. the only reason this was good for them is because after the abolition of slavery there was hardly any work for them and white southeners had large plantations that needed farming so thats when sharecropping came into play
Sharecropping and institution just as bad as slavery.
The South needed a cheap form of labor like sharecropping because they faced labor shortages after the abolition of slavery. Sharecropping allowed landowners to retain control over agricultural production while providing former slaves and poor whites with a means of livelihood, albeit in a system that often exploited them economically.