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  • Overview
  • Application by region
  • Africa
  • Scotland
  • United States
  • Sharecropping and socioeconomic status
  • Impacts
  • Economic theories of share tenancy
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
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thumb|A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)

Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping is different from tenant farming, which provides the tenant greater autonomy, and higher economic and social status.

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