3. One Solution Was Sharecropping
To keep formerly enslaved African Americans in a position of servitude, former plantation owners came up with a solution that was basically slavery but with a different name: sharecropping. Sharecropping is a system that sounds fair on a system but, in practice, is anything but.
Theoretically, sharecropping means that workers grow crops on the plantation grounds. They get to keep some of the vegetables as payment for their work, and the rest of the plants go to the plantation owner, as he provided the land and tools necessary to grow the crops.
