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Sharecropping During the Reconstruction Period 5-1.3 and 5-1.4

Sharecropping During the Reconstruction Period 5-1.3 and 5-1.4. Also, as a sharecropper, you won’t have to pay me rent in cash to live on my land. Just pay me in crops! C’mon. It’s a win-win!!. Good! As for me, I have no one to pick and clean my cotton since I was forced to free y’all.

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Sharecropping During the Reconstruction Period 5-1.3 and 5-1.4

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  1. Sharecropping During the Reconstruction Period 5-1.3 and 5-1.4

  2. Also, as a sharecropper, you won’t have to pay me rent in cash to live on my land. Just pay me in crops! C’mon. It’s a win-win!! Good! As for me, I have no one to pick and clean my cotton since I was forced to free y’all. I’ve got a proposition for you. How about you all come work for me? Well, it’s true we have no job or land of our own. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but you’ve got a deal! I have land to live on and you don’t. Alright, I get it. You’re still a little sore about that whole slavery thing. We’re doing alright, I suppose. Well, howdy, folks! How y’all doin’ today? Awww. That’s too bad! Ready, folks? Let’s give the man his answer on the count of three. 1…2…3! Think about it, though. I have no workers and you don’t have a job. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

  3. A Cycle of Poverty Sharecropper - farmer who works part of the land and gives the landowner part of the harvest Southern sharecroppers picking cotton.

  4. How did sharecropping work? · Freedmen would farm land belonging to white owners, oftentimes their old masters. Plantation Land worked by sharecroppers. · Freedmen would pay rent for the land they farmed by giving the landowner a percentage of their crops. · In addition, freedmen would purchase seed, tools, and other supplies from the landowner. * As a result, freedmen were in constant debt to the landowners and were never able to earn a profit. If they tried to move, they could be arrested. Therefore, freedmen became tied down to the land, in a state similar to slavery.

  5. Sharecropping Amelia Robinson & Thomas Chatmon, 1:59 Home of Negro sharecropper near Marshall, Texas (March, 1939) "Children of Negro sharecropper pumping water.” (Transylvania, Louisiana, 1939)

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