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Tenant farmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operati...
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By 1930 there were 1,831,470 tenant farmers in the South. What began as a device to get former slaves back to work became a pernicious system that entrapped white as well as black farmers. ... Realistically, farming forty or fifty acres on this basis was a prescription for poverty, especially when cotton prices plunged.
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Sharecropping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sharecropping and Tenant Farming History | aaw_02_package.xml. Sharecropping and Tenant Farming summary with 3 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... Tenant farming and sharecropping, which began in hope, soon became bywords for despair.
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University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Agripedia ... This page is intended for popup window display. Part of Agripedia Web site. ... Tenant farming is an agreement in which a worker provides farm labor in exchange for on farm housing.
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The growth of state tenant farming reflected a national trend. In the late 1800s, twenty-five per cent of American farmers operated as tenants. By the late 1930s, forty percent farmed as tenants. Today, almost all Arkansas farmers rent some of the land they cultivate.
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Civil War - Reconstruction And Tenant Farming ... The planter class did not disappear after the Civil War, but just "restructured" itself into a system of tenant farming that kept the newly freed slaves tied to the South and to a system of quasi-slavery. Ninety percent of all blacks lived in the South until 1910.
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The crop-sharing lease is usually workable only in strictly cash-crop farming. The tenant gets part of the returns. Where these are relatively high, as on many Northern farms in good years, it is a fairly satisfactory type of tenancy.
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