Tenant farming

Tenant farming is when the person who works the farmland does not own the land themselves. The farmer pays rent  to the landowner, either with cash or with a portion of the produce. When the rent is a share of the crop, it is sharecropping.

Many freed slaves during the Reconstruction of the United States who owned no land became tenant farmers, renting land from a great landowner.  

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