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If a farmer choose a bad crop, then he would be in even more debt to a landowner.

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A consequence of tenant farming is that land could be messed up and be in debt.

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Tenants could also raise livestock in rented land.

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Sharecropping encouraged freed slaves  to make as much harvest as possible in order to keep the land.

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Sometimes landowners would provide clothes, food, and medical expenses.

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Tenant Farmers would pay for a house/land/ and materials.

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By 1900, there was more than 53,000 tenant farmers

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Tenant Farming allowed more liberty than sharecropping.

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Most family members would have participated

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Because of duty to "share" the crops, Sharecroppers would have little profit

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Some conflict arouse from southern land owners and freed slaves.

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Only a small fraction of slaves in the south owned land plots (30,000/4,000,000

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Only a small fraction of slaves in the south owned land plots (30,000/4,000,000

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Some conflict came from white landowners and freed slaves

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Required mostly labor along with cooperation with Southerners.

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Sharecropping was the only way that former slaves to make money based off of their skills