Tenant Farming and Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

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

• Sharecropping

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