Sharecropping Facts for kids
Interesting Sharecropping facts for kids are detailed below. The history of Sharecropping is told in a factual sequence consisting of
a series of short facts providing a simple method of relating the
history and events of the Sharecropping.
Tenant
Farming and Sharecropping
Facts for kids
Sharecropping
Fact 1: The sharecropping system was
initially used by former slaves but poor white people
also became sharecroppers. The Civil War had left many
people without money or land - but they did have the
skills to grow crops.
Sharecropping
Fact 2: The system of tenant farming was
suited to the Cash Crops such as cotton, indigo, sugar
and tobacco in which surplus crops were sold at a
profit.
Sharecropping
Fact 3: The plantation landlord owned the
land, cabins, the tools and equipment, the animals and
the seeds to grow the crops.
Sharecropping
Fact 4: The impoverished sharecroppers and
tenant farmers owned nothing - everything was rented
from the land and plantation owners.
Sharecropping
Fact 5: The land owners often advanced the
sharecropper families credit to meet their living
expenses - interest was often charged on the loans.
Sharecropping
Fact 6: Under the tenant farming system the
Plantation landowners divided the farms and plantations
into 20 - 50 acre plots that were suitable for a single
family of sharecroppers to farm. In exchange for the use
of land, a cabin, tools and supplies, sharecroppers
agreed to raise a cash crop and give a share, usually 50
percent, of the crop to their landlord.
Sharecropping
Fact 7: The sharecroppers had to sign a
contract to agree to the terms of the landlord. The
uneducated sharecroppers were often unable to read the
contracts, which often included clauses in which the
tenant farmers agreed to pay exorbitant interest rates -
some of which were as high as 70%
Sharecropping
Fact 8: In return for their work the
sharecroppers and tenant farmers received a share
(usually half) of the money made from selling the crops.
However the terms of the contracts kept the
sharecroppers in continued poverty from which there was
easy means of no escape
Sharecropping
Fact 9: Monies were deducted from the tenant
farmers share. All debts and interest had to be repaid
and the cost of the seed and any other expenses such as
tools and rent were deducted.
Sharecropping
Fact 10: Contracts included a 'get out' clause
in which the landlords were entitled to evict the
sharecroppers if they were unable to work due to
sickness
Continued...
Tenant
Farming and Sharecropping
Facts for kids
Sharecropping - Racial Discrimination and
Segregation
For additional facts
about racial discrimination and segregation refer to
detailed information on
Black Segregation
History
and for brief, fast
facts refer to the
Segregation History Timeline.
Our article on
Black Populism
tells the history of the African American farmers in
the South.
Sharecropping
The info about the
Sharecropping provides interesting facts and
important information about this important event that occured during the presidency of the 18th President of the United States of America.
Sharecropping Facts for kids
Interesting history and the Sharecropping Facts for kids are
continued below.
Sharecropping
Facts for kids
Sharecropping
Fact 11: The land owners were in charge of
selling the crops and keeping accounts and records of
any debts owed by the sharecropper. Sharecroppers and
tenant framers had no control over which crops were
planted or how the crops were sold.
Sharecropping
Fact 12: The people who had no option but to
work under this system had a hard life under the
strictly enforced labor conditions of the landlords. The
system resulted in a low standard of living for the
tenant farmers and no hope of escaping the poverty trap.
Sharecropping
Fact 13: In many cases, unfair contracts and
unscrupulous landlords simply replaced the institution
of slavery with the new scheme .
Sharecropping
Fact 14: In some areas in the South the system
of sharecropping and tenant farmers persisted into the
1940's.
Sharecropping
Facts for kids
Black
History for kids: Important People and Events
For visitors interested in African American History
refer to
Black History - People and Events.
A useful resource for
teachers, kids, schools and colleges undertaking
projects for the Black History Month.
Sharecropping - President Ulysses Grant Video
The article on the Sharecropping
and tenant farmers provides an overview of one of the
important events of his presidential term in office. The following
Ulysses Grant video will
give you additional important facts and dates about the political events experienced by the 18th American President whose presidency spanned from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877.
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