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Sharecroppers were typically poor farmers, often freed African Americans, who worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops produced. This system emerged in the Southern United States after the Civil War and often trapped sharecroppers in cycles of debt and poverty due to high rents and costs for supplies. While it offered some opportunity for land use, it frequently resulted in exploitative conditions, as landowners maintained significant control over the terms of the arrangement.

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When was Sharecropper's Seed created?

Sharecropper's Seed was created on 2007-04-03.


What would most likely be listed in a contract between landowners and sharecroppers?

The portion of the crop the landowner owed to the sharecropper


How do you use sharecropper in a sentence?

The sharecropper worked on the farm in exchange for a portion of the crops.


What would most likely be listed in the contract between a landowner and a sharecropper?

The portion of the crop the landowner owned to the sharecropper


What would most likely be listed in a contract between a landowner in a sharecropper?

The portion of the crop the landowner owed to the sharecropper


When sharecropper begin?

1975


How do you use the word sharecropper in a sentence?

My grandpa was a sharecropper in the 1940's.


What was probably true about contracts between landowner and sharecropper?

It is 'probably true' that all these contracts heavily favored the landowner. He kept the books and could manipulate costs and profits at will. And of course: no profit, no profit share and payment for the sharecropper. Also, it is true that many landowners had a 'company store' that the sharecroppers were obliged to use. So, even if there was a profit share, most or all of it went to the payment of the debt run up at that store.


A farmer who rents land is called?

A tenant farmer. If he pays his rent with crops that he grows then he might be called a sharecropper.


What part of speech is sharecropper?

Sharecropper is a noun. It refers to a person who works on someone else's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced.


Synonyms for sharecropper?

tenant farmer


What is the opposite of sharecropper?

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