Sharecropping

System of farming in which farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.

Sharecropping began in the south after the Civil War ended in 1865. In the Great Depression people turned to sharecropping because they did not have enough money.

After the civil war, African Americans had trouble finding a place to work. so African Americans would make a contract with a plantation owner to give him cotton crops, and in return he would give t

Sharecropping is the process of renting out land to people (mostly white people in the great depression) so the landowners can have workers and the people can have food and money.

Many plantation owners had stores where freedmen bought supplies, such as seed, fertilizer, tools, and even food, clothing and medicine on credit

Before the Civil War slaves lived in huts grouped together behind the plantation owners house.

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sharecropping

The sharecroppers where provided land and food

the former slaves lived in slightly larger huts spread all around the plantation. there are also more roads as well as churches and schools.

Sharecropping was for people that had been freed but slavery sharecroppers were given land to farm; however, they had to give a portion of their crops to the owner. Slaves were not given land at all.