Tenant Farming and Sharecropping

Many things changed during the reconstruction period and the time slavery gained freedom. The former slave needs a job to support himself and his family. Tenant farmers and tenant farming are the answers to the latest questions. Both tenant farmers and tenant farmers have a negative and positive effect, but everyone has their own view on this solution. Caucasians have a strong opinion on free African Americans getting their own lands. Tenant farmers and tenants Agriculture is temporarily a better social solution.

This system is known as tenant farming, or more generally as a tenant farmer. It is not actually new, and Caucasians without land before the war are often nourished as tenants. Together with the development of the war, the tenant system is a simple proposition: plantation is divided into small farms that will work by the family of the previous slave. Growers or landlords will provide land, seeds, fertilizer, scorpion and plow to tenants and tenants will provide labor. Cotton, tobacco or sugarcane of harvested crops is usually distributed between them in a 50/50 ratio. If a tenant has his own equipment, he may gain a larger share; a person who has nothing but his own labor. Tenant farms are usually smaller than normal, usually less than 100 acres and much smaller. The landlord wants to cultivate as much land as possible with cash crops of each tenant farm to increase what their "share" bring. Therefore, cotton is often planted from "door to road"

Without money, land and livestock, freed slaves can not build their own agricultural community in the south. As a result, many exploited tenant agricultural systems took the form of tenant farmers. As a common practice of slave agriculture, tenant farmers allow tenants (mostly blacks) to work on landlord farms (mostly Caucasians), accounting for the percentage of income per crop. Unfortunately, this system rarely brings economic benefits to tenants, a dirty gathering of ruined huts, acting as though they are still enslaved. balance