Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land
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When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
A share cropper
The tenant farmer who gives a share of his crop is Mr. Morrison. He helps the Logan family and is a loyal and trusted friend.
A tenant farmer, otherwise referred to as a share cropper, farms in exchange for part of the final crop.
The portion of the crop the landowner owed to the sharecropper
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Sharecroppers use land not owned by them, but they have a deal with the land owner to share the crop that is produced.
Sharecroppers use land not owned by them, but they have a deal with the land owner to share the crop that is produced.
Tenant farmers were also known as share croppers. They did all the work, raised the crop, in exchange for the right to sell part of the crop. Share cropping is now infamous because of the grinding poverty that most of those people lived in.