Sharecropping by ffffff https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj english en-us 2020-03-19 08:25:13 UTC 2020-03-19 09:09:58 UTC hello@padlet.com The Fields maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465866987 2020-03-19 08:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465866987 Investors maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465867187 they bought ]]> 2020-03-19 08:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465867187 rented Poor Farmers (sharecroppers) maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465871184 they worked on]]> 2020-03-19 08:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465871184 The sharecropper agreed to deliver a certain share of his crop every year to the landowner. maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465877079 2020-03-19 08:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465877079 they bought what they needed from the local store, which often belonged to the landowner or his agent. maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465880720 2020-03-19 08:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465880720 When the cotton price sank, or the overworked soil yielded less than in the past, the sharecroppers went into debt. maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465891525 2020-03-19 09:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465891525 Without agricultural training, modern farming equipment or capital, the sharecropper was trapped in a cycle of endless hard work and unrelenting poverty. maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465893047 2020-03-19 09:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465893047 On the paper a sharecropper was a free man, but his econimic status was not much better that as a slave maik_meier021 https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465894501 2020-03-19 09:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/maik_meier021/3pjwdzcz7ptj/wish/465894501