Most remained in debt to the land owners and were unable to move away.
They could not afford to buy land, but all they knew was farming. A large number of freed slaves in the South became share croppers, as they could not find other work.
After slaves were freed, they did not have money to buy land or animals to work the land. Many became share croppers and it was much like still being a slave.
Sharecroppers often lived in simple, one- or two-room homes, but they did not typically live in dog trot houses, which are a specific type of Southern architecture characterized by a central open passageway between two living areas. Dog trot houses were more commonly associated with rural families in the 19th century, but sharecroppers usually resided in more basic structures as they worked on rented land. Their homes were often built from available materials and lacked many amenities.
people who worked the land were serfs and peasant witch were mostly serfs.Nobles gave the serfs some land and in return the serf would farm and protect there land for them.
A peasant worked the land, but had freedom. A serf was bound to the land that they worked. They would live on the manor of a noble and work the land in exchange for food and protection.
share croppers
They could not afford to buy land, but all they knew was farming. A large number of freed slaves in the South became share croppers, as they could not find other work.
Sharecroppers were farmers, often African Americans in the Southern United States after the Civil War, who worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops they produced. They were often in a cycle of poverty and debt due to unfair contracts and exploitative practices by landowners.
After slaves were freed, they did not have money to buy land or animals to work the land. Many became share croppers and it was much like still being a slave.
Sharecroppers who worked the same land year after year often found themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty. They typically received only a small portion of the crop yield, as the majority went to landowners to cover rent and supplies. This arrangement made it difficult for them to save money or improve their circumstances, leading to a dependence on the landowners and perpetuating a cycle of economic exploitation. As a result, many sharecroppers remained economically stagnant, unable to break free from their challenging situation.
Former slaves that had no land or food to provide for themselves or their family. They started working for the whits and planted crops. They only had enough food to feed themselves and there families. The whites go majority of the crops
sharecroppers were farmers who rented land and paid a share of each years crop as rent; they did not own the land they worked.
The system where freed slaves worked on someone else's land is called sharecropping. Under this system, former slaves worked on land owned by a different individual in exchange for a share of the crop produced.
Sharecropper is someone who farms land and pays rent for the land using a portion of the crop.
sharecroppers were farmers who rented land and paid a share of each years crop as rented;they did not own the land they worked.
Share croppers were at risk of non profit but slavery was for free so slave owners pick slaves rather than share croppers and the cotton the slaves pick were more of value so having someone for free
Sharecropping, or share-cropping sounds harmless and benign. In theory tenant ( non-owner) farmers resided and worked on farms and were resposnible for a share of the output= or crop. It sounds benign, like rentals in apartment houses, but in reality was not so even-handed. In effect share-croppers were bound to the land, not by chains or leg-irons ( as in slavery days) but by oppressive contract arrangements- not to different from that of medieval serfs. There were both Black and White share croppers. In theory it sounded benign, in practice it was abusive. There were laws or equivalents of laws in some states that effectively prevented farmers ( both owners and share-croppers, effectively, from changing jobs- with the possible exveption of going into the Armed Forces! ( out of the Frying pan and into the blast Furnace of modern war!) On the other hand the Feds were known to have engaged in various propaganda and educational programs angled at agrarians ( one survival is the the Four-J clubs)- and at times paid farmers NOT to grow crops (in this most labor-intensive job)_ but thiw was done for crop rotation of ( Fallowing) and in more recent times, decontamination of harmful pest control products. so it goes.