Esther Gonzalez

 Why did sharecropping fade away in the 1940’s ?  The great depression,mechanization  How many sharecropper were white and black?  Tow-thirds were white and one –third was black. 

A system where the landlord and planter allow a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. The landlord would sharecrop with the black exchange for a piece Of crop but the black didn’t get a lot of money because they would give all of there crops to the landlords.

 Sharecropping means that a person farms property belonging to someone else for a share of the crop. It is a way that a farmer without land can earn many and a land-owner can get a return from his fields without out farming it himself. Plantation owners lost their slave labor and so had more land than then could farm themselves and no cash with which to hire workers. So share-cropping was an answer. I would think sharecropping would have about the same effect on African Americans as on anybody else

 “ Millions of blacks in remote parts of the south could not leave the farms they worked on. If they did they would be returned back to the farm and many times in cuffs” Author Douglas A. Blackmon  “When 40 acres and a male didn’t emerge the people realized they had little choice but to work for former slave owners” “People being promised wages but never being paid” Historian Mary Ellen Curtin

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