sharecrop
Till for portion
To sharecrop is to farm land belonging to someone else in exchange for a share of the crop produced.
The system dominated the American South after the Civil War, often trapping formerly enslaved people and poor whites in cycles of debt to landowners.
His family sharecropped cotton in Mississippi for three generations.
Research outside the office
- harvestGathering mature crops
- pickingAct of selecting
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- cultivationFostering growth through care
toil · manual labor · cotton picking · tobacco farming · hoeing · plowing · backbreaking work · agricultural labor
Plant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- riceStaple cereal grain
- sugar caneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- cornCereal grown on cobs
peanuts · yield · boll weevil · growing season · seed · fertilizer · mule · plow
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- postbellumAfter a war
Great Migration · disenfranchisement · segregation · cotton economy · tenant farming · debt cycle · African-American history · rural South
Debt-based forced labor
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- economic coercionMonetary pressure for compliance
poverty cycle · predatory lending · company store · generational poverty
One who leases farmland
- landlordProperty owner renting out
- landownerOne possessing real estate
- leaseTemporary use contract
- croplandLand for growing produce
rental agreement · acreage · settlement · furnish · advance · plot · holding · smallholding
field work
Research outside the office
cultivation · toil · manual labor · cotton picking · tobacco farming · hoeing · plowing · backbreaking work · agricultural labor · family labor
cotton
Plant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- riceStaple cereal grain
- sugar caneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
corn · peanuts · yield · boll weevil · growing season · seed · fertilizer · mule · plow · hoe
Reconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- antebellumBefore a war's start
postbellum · Great Migration · disenfranchisement · segregation · cotton economy · tenant farming · debt cycle · African-American history · rural South · freedpeople
peonage
Debt-based forced labor
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
economic coercion · poverty cycle · predatory lending · company store · generational poverty
tenant farmer
One who leases farmland
cropland · rental agreement · acreage · settlement · furnish · advance · plot · holding · smallholding · cash rent
- farm agreementsfarm lease, tenant farming, contract farming, farm management, land lease
- farmlandfarms, farm, fields, field, barns
- landholdingsestate, estates, landholding, holdings, holding
sharecroplandowning
Possessing real estate
freehold · land ownership · proprietorship · landed · homestead
sharecropsubsistence farming
Growing food for household
landlording · agribusiness · commercial farming · corporate farming · hire out
sharecropper, sharecropping, sharecroppers, sharecropped, sharecrops