page_title: Sharecropping
hierarchical_section_title: Sharecropping
caption_attribution_description: English: Farm Security Administration photo: chopping cotton Greene County Georgia 1941
context_page_description: Sharecropping is when a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
  Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system. Some are governed by tradition, and others by law. The Italian mezzadria, the French métayage, the Spanish mediero, the Slavic połowcy, издoльщина and the Islamic system of muzara‘a, are examples of legal systems that have supported sharecropping.
context_section_description: Sharecropping is when a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
  Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system. Some are governed by tradition, and others by law. The Italian mezzadria, the French métayage, the Spanish mediero, the Slavic połowcy,издoльщина and the Islamic system of muzara‘a, are examples of legal systems that have supported sharecropping.
caption: An FSA photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
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