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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.
- The Pros and Cons of the Sharecropping System ExplainedThe sharecropping system came into existence when the freed African-American slaves and poor Whites were not granted land ownership by the federal government in the U.S. It began after the Civil War ended in 1865 and people were left without money or land.
- 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 - 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 | Definition, Significance, History, & FactsSharecropping, 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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