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sharecropping

In an agricultural lease, the agreement between the landowner and the tenant farmer to split the crop or the profit from its sale, actually sharing the crop.

Related information about sharecropping:
  1. Sharecropping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50% of ...
     
  2. About Sharecropping
    Sharecropping as an impetus to migrate north occurs in some of the works of Richard Wright and John O. Killens. A different kind of freedom is suggested in "A ...
     
  3. New Georgia Encyclopedia: Sharecropping
    Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited both parties. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow ...
     
  4. Reconstruction --- sharecropping
    Jul 17, 2007 ... Sharecropping is an agricultural system which developed in the Southern states during the Civil War. It was a farm tenancy system in which ...
     
  5. Sharecropping & "Forty Acres and a Mule" — History.com Articles ...
    During the Reconstruction era in the South, many African Americans were forced into a type of tenant farming known as sharecropping.
     
  6. People & Events: Sharecropping in Mississippi - PBS
    People & Events: Sharecropping in Mississippi. The Mississippi Delta was where "cotton was king." America's Richest Cotton Farmland The Delta plantation ...
     
  7. American Experience | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War - PBS
    A model contract reveals some of the injustices typical of sharecropping arrangements. ... Q&A: Sharecropping and Changes in the Southern Economy ...
     
  8. TENANT FARMING AND SHARECROPPING
    In the decades after Reconstruction tenancy and sharecropping became the way of life in the Cotton Belt. By 1930 there were 1,831,470 tenant farmers in the ...