Sharecropping

Use of land by a tenant in return for a share of the crops produced

Sharecropping is the legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping is different from tenant farming, which provides the tenant greater autonomy, and higher economic and social status. Sharecropping may be a traditional arrangement of land governed by law.

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