sharecropping
sharecropping sharecropping developed in the southern United States after the Civil War. Many formerly enslaved families needed land to farm, while landowners needed labor. This system became a common way for agriculture to continue during Reconstruction By Jack Delano - LC-USF351-599 FSA/OWI Collection Prints and Photographs Division Library of 1] photo by Jack Delano, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41830912 Landowners often lacked money to pay wages, and freed families lacked land and supplies. Sharecropping appeared to offer a solution by allowing families to farmland in exchange for a portion of the crops they produced. Sharecropping was a farming arrangement where a family worked a piece of land owned by someone else. Instead of receiving pay, the family gave a share of the harvested crops to the landowner at the end of the season. ...