A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
25. Sharecropping
Statewide
Many poor Alabama farmers, both white and black, became caught in a system of economic dependency following the
Civil War. Without money to purchase land, they agreed to live on land owned by another farmer and pay him with
a share of the crop produced. The system was common across the state well into the twentieth century.
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