CONTEXT (Activities 1&2)

What is it? Share cropping is when landowners give land out and you have to live off it for a year. You also get a plot of land. Harvest the crops and the landowner sells it for money. Sharecroppers crop until there all there debt is payed. 

Sharecropping is a system where the freedman would get land and a house to stay in,but they  would have to give more then half to the owners, what they earned. This system made the freedman and the southerns happy.

What is its purpose?the purpose is to create a new economy

Its purpose is to recreate/construct a new economy.   

Who uses it?farmers and  people that needed a job and somewhere to live.

Farmers/sharecroppers and anyone who needs a job and somewhere to live.

A sharecropper is a person who either loses their own land or owes money for their land and can't pay it back.  They work on an owner's land which is sometimes a rich person.  They plow, plant, weed and harvest crops and they only get 1/2 of what the owner gets.

                    SHARECROPPING

Sharecropping was an endless and energy absorbing cycle. 

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land.

Sharecropping was a way from African Americans to have a job, but still do what they were brought to America to do. Farm/plantation work. 

The cycle began with a freed slave looking for a paying job. Since most freed slaves couldn't read or write, they turned back to the horrific labor of maintaining a plantation. The man of the household would be given a small plot of land and a small cabin. 

The cycle continues as the plantation owner would give the family their job on the farm and their hours they were expected to work for the little pay they were given. 

The pay would be given to the head of the household and a portion of the crop for them to eat and sell. It isdoneby farmers.

At the end of the growing season, their crop toatal would be calculated by the plantation owner. This is part where not being able to read or write became an enormous struggle and disadvantage. The owner could take advantage of the family, and only goie them as portion of what they are deserving of. 

The family would then forever be in debt to the plantation owner, forcing them to forever work for him. 

Sharecropping was not even to a step close to being up for slavery!

SOURCE (Activities 3-5)

 Alabama tenant farmer and children. Family labor in cotton. Near Anniston, Alabama.

Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1936 June.

A sharecropper is a person who either loses their own land or owes money for their land and can't pay it back.  They work on an owner's land which is sometimes a rich person.  They plow, plant, weed and harvest crops and they only get 1/2 of what the owner gets.

MEANING (Activities 6-8)

sharecropping is someone who loses there land or owes money for there land they caint pay for.

OTHER INFORMATION (Activities 9-11)

the slaves were free but not actually free they got food and everything but they still had to follow the leaders order for example they had to work untill dark unless the "leaders" tell them they can stop working so they are free mentally but physically they are not 

This picture shows the cycle of sharecropping.

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   this picture next to this is the amout of sharecropping in the south    

This picture shows how unhealthy and unsanitary this was. Also kids had to sharecrop too.

Sharecropping was a long and unhealthy. Most of the time the sherecropper made very little money. The sharecropper would plant the crops then harvest them and give them to the farmer. The farmer would then sell the crop to families that needed it. The sharecropper would then get very little profit of what the farmer made.Sometimes the farmer gave you no money at all if you didnt sell anything.They also had to work in hot weather.

Sharecroping wasn't very good. If you were lucky you could make a little money,but if you weren't you either owe money or make none. You would build up on debt. You also had the chance to pay that debt off.

Sharecropping was a way for landowners to trick African Americans because they were less educated and were easily tricked. 

system of farm tenancy once common in some parts of the United States. In the United States t Share cropping was used for freedmen to own wages,but if the workers did not met up to their debt then they would have to stay another year to pay off their debt.Some families had to work for the rest of their lives to make up their debt.

this video about sharecropping.

this pictures shows how people had to work with sharecropping

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