Sharecropping
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Sharecropping is the legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping is different from tenant farming, wh
A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
Sharecroppers on the roadside after they were evicted for membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (January 1936)
An early 20th century Texas sharecropper's home diorama at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, in Greenville, Texas 2015
Cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Peonage
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Peonage is any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer has little control over employment or economic conditions. A peon is a
Sharecropping
…workers in the Western United States during World War II. On August 6, 1966, the American Congress under the then president Lyndon B. Johnson, abolished Peonage. After the government had done this, sharecropping had started to rapidly disappear throughout the United States. Mississippi was the last state to end…
Foreman and country peon by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823 - 1870)
Foreman and rebel peon by Martín León Boneo, 1901.
Punishment of peons employed by American railroad tycoon Henry Meiggs in Chile or Peru, 1862
Cartoon of Indictment of US Planters and negro peonage