Tenant farming

Tenant farming is when the person who works the farmland does not own the land themselves. The farmer pays rent to the landowner, either with cash or with a portion of the produce. When the rent is a share of the crop, it is sharecropping.

Many freed slaves during the Reconstruction of the United States who owned no land became tenant farmers, renting land from a great landowner.

Tenant Farming Media

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  Tenant farmer on his front porch, south of Muskogee, Oklahoma (1939)

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  A typical Husmann residence from Hof