Why did sharecropping arise? Who benefited from it and why?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The ideal answer should:
1. Define post–Civil War labor conditions: white plantation owners had land but no labor or money; former slaves had no land but had their own labor and needed wages.
2. Explain the bargain reached that created a new labor system: the landlord furnished tools, seed, work animals, and other goods to the black or white family to grow a cotton crop.
3. Note that the landowner received one-third to one-half of the crop and the renter received the rest of the crop.
4. Conclude that the system ultimately benefitted white landowners because they owned the means of production and law enforcement and charged high prices for goods that black sharecroppers often had to buy from them during the year, such as food. Black sharecroppers became indebted and could not move to another location without paying off their debts, effectively become debt peons.
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