Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a term for when one person farms another person's land, and then the two share what is produced. Sharecroppers are almost always poor, and are often in debt to landowners or other people. Sharecropping was very common in the Southern United States after the American Civil War and the end of slavery. At that time, many African Americans sharecropped on the land that they had once farmed as slaves. Sharecropping was part of the system of "Jim Crow", which kept blacks poor and not really citizens.
Sharecropping became more common in the Southern United States when slavery was abolished. During the 20th century it became rare.
A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
Sharecroppers on the roadside after they were evicted for membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (January 1936)
- Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum July 2015 05 (early 20th century Texas sharecropper's home diorama).jpg
Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum July 2015 05 (early 20th century Texas sharecropper's home diorama)
Cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
- Sharecropper's cabin, Lake Providence, LA IMG 7385.JPG
Sharecropper's cabin, Lake Providence, LA IMG 7385
- Chapel for sharecroppers at Lake Providence, LA IMG 7389.JPG
Sharecroppers' chapel at Cotton Museum in Lake Providence
- J.B.Reeves (Evelyn Reeves) Tomball,TX - Sharecropper.jpg
White sharecropper, J. B. Reeves, in Tomball, Texas.
- Mrs. Handley and some of her children, Walker County, Alabama, 8b35778.jpg
A sharecropper family in Walker County, Alabama (c. 1937)
