About Sharecropping Sharecropping Trudier Harris A practice that emerged following the emancipation of African-American slaves, sharecropping came to define the method of land lease that would eventually become a new form of slavery. Without land of their own, many blacks were drawn into schemes where they worked a portion of the land owned by whites for a share of the profit from the crops.

Turkish Village Copyright 1965, 1994 Paul Stirling. All rights reserved. Paul Stirling CHAPTER FOUR THE VILLAGE ECONOMY previous page Page 54 Share-cropping and Renting Land is no good unless it is worked. To work it, manpower, draught animals, tools and seed are all necessary. For want of one or more of these owners are sometimes forced to leave land uncultivated. If the land is sufficiently ...

The New Deal for Share-Croppers William R. Amberson Publishing Information THE social outlook of the Secretary of Agriculture is well known, and there can be no doubt that the higher administration of the department is genuinely interested in building a better life for all classes in our farm population. Thus the authors of the 1934-35 Cotton Acreage Reduction Contract, foreseeing the ...