They became tenant farmers and achieved minimum autonomy through sharecropping.
Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners, and the housing already existed.
The full question and quotation is: What theme is most closely related to this quote from 1938 Tenant to Taxpayer This government relief has simply destroyed the morale of farm labor-has made the laboring class lazy and shiftless-has killed their will to do something for themselves. In fact, farming is not as satisfactory as it used to be all the way around and all because of government interference. - From Tenant to Taxpayer, written December 27, 1938; Name of Person Interviewed Mr. Wilbur White (white, farm owner). Full text is online at The Library of Congress. Theme: culture
I think you mean 'Tenant Farmer'. A tenant farmer is a farmer who does not own the land that he/she cultivates. Their rent is usually a fixed percentage of the harvest each year.
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Sharecropping and tenant farming both emerged as labor systems in the South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Both systems involved individuals working on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops produced. The laborers in these systems typically faced economic struggles and limited autonomy.
sharecropping
Tenant Farming also called Sharecropping came about in 1865 in the United States.
tenant farming
Both tenant farming and sharecropping were agricultural systems prevalent in the southern United States after the Civil War. Both involved renting land to work and paying a portion of the harvest as a form of payment to the landowner. However, in sharecropping, the tenant typically received a share of the harvest, while in tenant farming, the tenant paid rent in cash or crops.
ex slaves were sharecropping. Bang bang.
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land. A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.
There is no antonym for sharecropping as far as I know.
The landowners both had former slaves and poor whites working for them.
White supremacy
Tenant and Sharecropping
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery