Tenant Farming and Sharecropping

Landowner provides house and land.

 

Landowner received set amount of cash or a portion of crop at end of season.

 

Tenant farmers usually made small profit.

 

Had own tools/supplies

 

Step above sharecropper

Landowner provides house, land, equipment, animals, fertilizer and seeds.

 

Landowner issued credit to the worker to buy medicine, food, clothing and other supplies.

 

Landowner gets a share of the crop and crops to pay any debt owed.

 

Sharecroppers rarely had any