The landowners both had former slaves and poor whites working for them.
Sharecropping is one of the types of tenant farming that exists between the landowner and the person he allows to live on his land. Tenant farming is the situation where a landowner allows another person to live on his land and in return the tenant pays for that priviledge either through (1) giving over a portion of his crops to the landowner (sharecropping) or (2)payment in cash (which is not called sharecropping. Sharecropping involves giving over part of the crop to the landlord as payment for living on the land.
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.
Many of the same 'hands', but on a sharecropping basis - tenant farmers who owed some of the crop to the landlord, and free to sell the rest.
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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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.
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery
Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.
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Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.