well workers got a place to live on and crops to plant for food, they were paid too but not as much as the landowners
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in return, the farmer gave the landowner a share of crop. Landowners often loaned sharecroppers tools and seeds as well
Well the white land owners would rent their land for money. Since they couldn't keep slaves they rented out their land for a profit, PLUS the sharecroppers tended the land.
Two advantages are getting half the price of the sold crop and getting to pick the crop(s) that are grew and sold .
The landowners both had former slaves and poor whites working for them.
Taxes required of poor farmers -APEX
Landowners took advantage of the workers
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they refused to sell goods to them