Sharecropping

...Sharecropping... Sharecropping is a system of agriculture where landowners allow the tenant to use the land and the tenant pays the landowner a share of the crop produced on the land. Sharecropping stareted after the Civil War. It was a way for poor freed slaves to have their own farms.

Slavery and the Civil War led to sharecropping. Freed slaves and poor whites participated in sharecropping. Many former slaves did not want to work for wages because they would still have to do what they were told to do by the whites.



This does'nt continue along America's path. It turns in a new direction because former slaves are not being paid by a slaveowner, they pay the landowner 1/3 or 1/2 of their crops. This is different because instead of slaves working for a landowner, going through torture and pain, they are now free, landowning people. They are supplied with tools, clothing, and etc(Depending on their contract) and all they have to do is pay them with crops. This event does not mean a thing today. In conclusion, Sharecropping