Sharecropping developed after the slavery system had been abolished. In exchange for labor, the worker received a portion of the crop to sell and use as he wished. In reality, it was another form of slavery. The landlord deducted the rent from the portion of the crop due to the laborer, which very often left the worker with a bare subsistence living.
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The main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage was that the African Americans were prevent from leaving the plantation that they were enslaved. The consequence to debt peonage is that the African Americans left the South and migrated to the North and West.
Sharecropping
Sharecropping gave freed slaves a chance to earn a living and gave landowners a much needed labor force.
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Soldiers were issued rations; civilians starved.