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Sharecropping

Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

Not to be confused with Cropsharing.

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 French métayage, the Catalan masoveria, the Castilian mediero, the Slavic połownictwo and izdolshchina, the Italian mezzadria, and the Islamic system of muzara‘a (المزارعة), are examples of legal systems that have supported sharecropping.

Adams, Jane; Gorton, D. (2009). "This Land Ain't My Land: The Eviction of Sharecroppers by the Farm Security Administration". Agricultural History. 83 (3): 323–51. :10.3098/ah.2009.83.3.323.

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Agee, James; Evans, Walker (1941). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Allen, D. W.; Lueck, D. (1992). "Contract Choice in Modern Agriculture: Cash Rent versus Cropshare". Journal of Law and Economics. 35 (2): 397–426. :10.1086/467260. S2CID 153707520.

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Barbagallo, Tricia (June 1, 2005). (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 13, 2013. Retrieved 2008-06-04.

"Black Beach: The Mucklands of Canastota, New York"

Davis, Ronald L. F. (1982). . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23134-6.

Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860–1890

Ferleger, Louis (1993). "Sharecropping Contracts in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South". Agricultural History. 67 (3): 31–46.  3744228.

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Garrett, Martin A.; Xu, Zhenhui (2003). "The Efficiency of Sharecropping: Evidence from the Postbellum South". Southern Economic Journal. 69 (3): 578–595. :10.1002/j.2325-8012.2003.tb00514.x.

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Grubbs, Donald H. (1971). . University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1156-4.

Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and the New Deal

Hurt, R. Douglas Hurt (2003). African American Life in the Rural South, 1900–1950. University of Missouri Press.  0-8262-1471-1.

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Liebowitz, Jonathan J. (1989). "Tenants, Sharecroppers, and the French Agricultural Depression of the Late Nineteenth Century". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 19 (3): 429–445. :10.2307/204363. JSTOR 204363.

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Reid, Joseph D. Jr. (1975). "Sharecropping in History and Theory". Agricultural History. 49 (2): 426–440.  3741281.

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Roll, Jarod (March 16, 2010). . Southern Spaces. Archived from the original on January 10, 2011.

"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri"

Shaban, R. A. (1987). "Testing Between Competing Models of Sharecropping". Journal of Political Economy. 95 (5): 893–920. :10.1086/261495. S2CID 55141070.

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Singh, N. (1989). "Theories of Sharecropping". In Bardhan, P. (ed.). The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions. Clarendon Press. pp. 33–72.  0-19-828619-8.

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Southworth, Caleb (2002). "Aid to Sharecroppers: How Agrarian Class Structure and Tenant-Farmer Politics Influenced Federal Relief in the South, 1933–1935". Social Science History. 26 (1): 33–70.

Stiglitz, J. (1974). (PDF). Review of Economic Studies. 41 (2): 219–255. doi:10.2307/2296714. JSTOR 2296714.

"Incentives and Risk Sharing in Share Cropping"

Turner, Howard A. (1937). . Law and Contemporary Problems. 4 (4): 424–433. doi:10.2307/1189524. JSTOR 1189524.

"Farm Tenancy Distribution and Trends in the United States"

Virts, Nancy (1991). "The Efficiency of Southern Tenant Plantations, 1900–1945". Journal of Economic History. 51 (2): 385–395. :10.1017/S0022050700039012. JSTOR 2122582. S2CID 154991172.

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Wayne, Michael (1983). . Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1050-7.

The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880

Media related to Sharecropping at Wikimedia Commons

1936 newsreel by The March of Time about landless Southern farmers

King Cotton's Slaves