After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping. Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping and institution just as bad as slavery.
The families lived on sharecropping land
sharecropping affected African Americans and poor whites.
Cesar had done sharecropping with his neighbor's.
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Sharecropping
There is no antonym for sharecropping as far as I know.
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They were allowed to have part of the final crop, hence the name sharecropping.
Sharecropping was used to keep the land owner in wealth and have workers but still with little pay.
sharecropping did not cause the civil war but it happened after when they couldnt have slaves anymore
Sharecropping benefited both the workers and the owners. Sharecropping involved tenants farming land that is owned by someone else in return for a share of the crops.