What was true about sharecropping?

Answer 1

In sharecropping, both freed slaves and poor whites borrowed land, seeds, and tools from a landowner, in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.

Answer 2

Landowners took advantage of the workers

Answer 3

Sharecropping is an unfair practice in general, yet because African Americans were predominantly sharecroppers at one point in history, you might say it was disproportionately unfair to them. Fundamentally, sharecropping is very similar to slavery. In slavery, a person does not receive fair wages for his or her labor, which allows the owner to reap the monetary benefit. In sharecropping, the owner of the land reaps the profit from the sharecropper's labor. The only difference is that the owner does not own the person, but the land the person works on. Though the sharecropper is free to leave, in most cases the sharecropper cannot leave because he or she owes money to the landowner in excess of any profit he or she makes from farming the land. The debt to the landowner was the virtual chain (as opposed to the real chains used in slavery to keep slaves from running away) for many African American sharecroppers.

Answer 4

Sharecropping is unfair because they made slaves do there work with out paying them. Slaves would do any thing just to get a home and that's what the did sharecrop for the farmers.

Answer 5

Sharecropping oppressed slaves by being able to work for money from the cropping and labor and to make a share of it and rent a room to live. It helps them for new jobs.

Answer 6

Workers got too deep in debt and weren't able to pay back, so they ended up working there for the rest of their lives basically.

Answer 7

Many were designed to keep the former slaves poor