HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: W. E. B. Du Bois, Sharecropping, Jim Crow Laws
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Pick-up from previous class: friday september 2nd 2016: Share-cropping and tenant farming worked out overtime amongst planters and the freed families. now a vast majority of former slaves became sharecroppers. Share-cropping was when a freed family agreed to rent a parcel of land from a planter. And planters normally had several families farming land on their plantation. Now, the planter would provide the land, provide the seed/fertilizer and what was needed to have a plant of cotton. In addition, sometimes, they would apply food, and sometimes even animal such as a horse or donkey. And when the crop was harvested the planter would receive 1/3-1/2 the income that cotton would generate. For the freed families, they had more autonomy and more control to work the fields daily and how many hours they toiled each day. It was aventageous for planters as well with cotton prices so low it meant the share-cropping families were not seeing much by way of profit.
