After the Civil War, previous slaves looked for employment, and grower looked for workers. The nonattendance of money or an autonomous credit framework prompted the formation of sharecropping.
Sharecropping is where the proprietor/grower enables an inhabitant to utilize the land in return for an offer of the harvest. This urged inhabitants to work to deliver the greatest gather that they could and guaranteed they would stay attached to the land and improbable to leave for different openings.

In the South, after the Civil War, numerous dark families leased land from white proprietors and raised money yields, for example, cotton, tobacco, and rice. As a rule, the proprietors or close-by shippers would rent hardware to the leaseholders and offer seed, manure, sustenance, and different things on layaway until the point that the reaping season. Around then, the inhabitant and landowner or vendor would settle up, making sense of who owed whom and how much
High loan costs, erratic harvests, and corrupt proprietors and dealers regularly kept occupant cultivate families seriously obliged, requiring the obligation to be persisted until the following year or the following. Laws favoring landowners made it troublesome or even unlawful for tenant farmers to pitch their harvests to others other than their proprietor, or kept tenant farmers from moving in the event that they were obliged to their proprietor.
Roughly 66% of all tenant farmers were white, and 33% were dark. In spite of the fact that the two gatherings were at the base of the social stepping stool, tenant farmers started to sort out for better working rights, and the incorporated Southern Tenant Farmers Union started to pick up control in the 1930s. The Great Depression, automation, and different components lead sharecropping to blur away in the 1940s.