2006-08-28 13:36:39 · 6 answers · asked by kitty5bad 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Sharecropping is a system of agricultural production where a landowner allows a sharecropper to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land. There are a wide range of different situations and types of agreement: some governed by tradition, others by law. Legal contract systems such as métayage (French origin) and aparcería (Spanish) occur widely, and Islamic law has a traditional “musaqat” sharecropping agreement[3] for the cultivation of orchards.
2006-08-28 13:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by Tommy V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poorer classes in the old South, who could not afford to own land, worked some farmer's land for shares. The farmer provided the house (such as it was) and acreage. The sharecropper worked the land (growing cotton, most likely) and kept a share of the crop for himself. The majority went to the landowner. It was a way to survive but no one ever made a good living at it.
2006-08-28 13:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A tenant farmer who gives a share of the crops raised to the landlord in lieu of rent.
2006-08-28 13:40:20 · answer #3 · answered by acidcrap 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is allowed to work the fields of someone who owns the land including board and feed and gets a small percentage of the take when the harvest is in though he doesn't own anything.
2006-08-28 13:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a person that farms someone else's land and shares the harvest with the owner, hence a share cropper.
2006-08-28 13:41:50 · answer #5 · answered by True Blue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a farmer
2006-08-28 13:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋