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Bookmark or Share- Sharecropping: Definition and Dates - HISTORYSharecropping is a system of farming in which families, both Black and white, rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop.
- Sharecropping - WikipediaSharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
- Sharecropping vs. Tenant Farming - What's the Difference? - This vs. ThatThe sharecroppers, who were often former slaves or poor white farmers, did not own the land they cultivated. Instead, they would work the land in exchange for a share of the crops produced, usually around half. In contrast, tenant farmers had a different arrangement.
- Sharecropping: Slavery Rerouted | American Experience | PBSSharecropping is a system by which a tenant farmer agrees to work an owner’s land in exchange for living accommodations and a share of the profits from the sale of the crop at the end of the...
- Sharecropping | Definition, Significance, History, & Facts | BritannicaSharecropping, form of tenant farming in which the landowner furnished all the capital and most other inputs and the tenants contributed their labor. The tenant’s payment to the owner was in the form of a share in the product or in cash, or in a combination of both.
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