The landowners both had former slaves and poor whites working for them.
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
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During Reconstruction, a new system of farming was developed. The neo-peonage method of using tenant farmers on farms came to be known as sharecropping. The economic devastation of the south led to most of the land being used for cash crops rather than subsistence farming. Cash crops were the traditional antebellum ones like tobacco, cotton, sugar and rice.
Labor in the South was reconfigured primarily through the transition from slavery to sharecropping and tenant farming after the Civil War. Freed African Americans sought economic independence but often found themselves trapped in exploitative arrangements that perpetuated poverty and dependency. Sharecropping allowed landowners to maintain control over labor while providing former slaves with minimal compensation and little opportunity for advancement. This system reinforced racial and economic hierarchies that persisted well into the 20th century.
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.
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Sharecropping involved tenant farmers working a portion of a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced, while tenant farming involved renting land from a landowner and being able to keep all the produce grown. Sharecroppers often had fewer rights and faced more debt than tenant farmers.
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.
Tenant Farming also called Sharecropping came about in 1865 in the United States.
farmers worked land owned by others
farmers worked land owned by others
tenant farming
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.
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.