sharecropping

(noun)

The act of being a tenant farmer, especially in the Southern United States, who farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops.

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  • freedmen
  • livestock

Examples of sharecropping in the following topics:

  • Agriculture, Tenancy, and the Environment

    • The American South remained heavily rural for decades after the Civil War; sharecropping was widespread as a response to economic upheaval.
    • However, sharecropping, along with tenant farming, became a dominant form in the cotton South from the 1870s to the 1950s, among both blacks and whites.
    • Sharecropping was a way for very poor farmers, both white and black, to earn a living from land owned by someone else.
    • Prior to emancipation, sharecropping was limited to poor landless whites, usually working marginal lands for absentee landlords.
    • Sharecropping was by far the most economically efficient, as it provided incentives for workers to produce a bigger harvest.
  • Devastation in the South

    • As a result, a system of sharecropping was developed in which landowners broke up large plantations and rented small lots to the freedmen and their families.
    • Sharecropping was a way for very poor farmers, both white and black, to earn a living from land owned by someone else.
  • Farm and Rural Programs

    • Over the remaining years of the Great Depression, the once-common practice of sharecropping and tenant farming became exceedingly rare and vast amounts of tenant farmers were put out, without homes or means of income.
    • By the last half of the century sharecropping and tenant farming had become obsolete.
  • Conclusion: The Effects of Reconstruction

    • The system of sharecropping allowed blacks a considerable amount of freedom as compared to slavery.
  • Economic Growth

    • As a result, a system of sharecropping was developed where landowners broke up large plantations and rented small lots to the freedmen and their families.
  • The Aztec People

    • Nobles owned all land, and commoners got access to farmland and other fields through a variety of arrangements, from rental through sharecropping to serf-like labor and slavery.
  • Johnson's Plan

    • Such bargaining soon led to the practice of sharecropping, which gave the freedmen both greater economic independence and social autonomy.
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