sentence: Sharecroppers are almost always poor, and are often in debt to landowners or other people.
sentences_before: Sharecropping' is a term for when one person farms another person's land, and then the two share what is produced.
sentences_after: Sharecropping was very common in the Southern United States after the Civil War and the end of slavery. At that time, many African-Americans sharecropped on the land that they had once farmed as slaves.
concept_name: sharecropper
headings: Sharecropping
categories: History of the United States Labor Agriculture Property