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Maybe they did some sharecropping on the side and bought a little more."

"Since then, the whole system of sharecropping has fallen to pieces.

The Carters' larger goal was to break the hold that sharecropping had over their children's lives.

By 1930, tenant farming and sharecropping comprised 64 percent of the county's farms.

Why do you think sharecropping was so rampant?

Paige pointed out that sharecropping was economically inefficient in a free market.

Not only did the labor force change from slavery to sharecropping, but a change in demand also occurred.

Greatly diffused in the past, the sharecropping never produced an extreme land fragmentation.

Sharecropping has benefits and costs for both the owners and the croppers.

Buchanan said he's been preoccupied with the idea of 'digital sharecropping' since last year.

Traditional sharecropping declined after mechanization of farm work became economical in the mid-20th century.

Generally, peasant proprietorship or sharecropping meant low productivity.

His father later relocated the family to Rigby, Idaho, where he worked as a Sharecropping.

As a result, a system of sharecropping was developed where landowners broke up large plantations and rented small lots to the freedmen and their families.

In the 1960s, generous subsidies to white farmers meant that most farmers could afford to work their entire farms, and sharecropping faded out.

This period corresponds to the transition from slavery to sharecropping, small-scale agricultural production, and the expansion of railroads in the southern United States.

Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system.

Decentralized sharecropping involves virtually no role for the landlord: plots are scattered, peasants manage their own labor and the landowners do not manufacture the crops.

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But no sharecropping; that's outl" "I didn't say you could start homesteading in five months, Mr. Saunders.

Jeffery Paige made a distinction between centralized sharecropping found on cotton plantations and the decentralized sharecropping with other crops.

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