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n. The act of being a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, who farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops. vb. (present participle of sharecrop English)
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. 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. Some are governed by tradition, and others by law. Legal contract systems such as the Italian mezzadria, the French métayage, the Spanish mediero, or the Islamic system of muqasat, occur widely.
Usage examples of "sharecropping".
The trouble with sharecropping back on the Other Side hadn't been the basic idea of trading labor on someone else's fields for a portion of the harvest and a place to live.
The following day Scarlett drove out to give the sharecropping farmers notice to vacate.