Sharecroppers

Sharecroppers are former slaves who grow crops on the land the owner had provided for them. The owners also provided shelter for the farmer and his family, farming equipments and his labor. This might seem pretty fair but when it comes to their wages and payments, people's thoughts would change. The farmers had to give the owners the three fourth of their wages. This is not the end; slaves also had to pay back on the credit for the living expenses. Sometimes the money the farmers had to pay would be higher than the amount they earned so they had to work more to pay back. You work, earn money but it's not enough so to pay that back, you have to work again. This will repeat and the farmers usually don't earn anything from working

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This concludes that sharecropping isn't fair after all. The slaves had to keep on working for the owners in order to pay them back and as they work, their living expenses will grow and grow and end up owing more than before.

Citation for the picture:
"Slave to Sharecropper." Reconstruction The Second Civil War. 2004. PBS Online.