The system under which landowners provided farmers with housing and supplies in exchange for a portion of the crop raised is known as sharecropping. This arrangement emerged in the post-Civil War South, where formerly enslaved individuals and poor white farmers would work land owned by landowners. In return for their labor, they received a share of the harvest, but often ended up in a cycle of debt due to high costs and unfair practices.
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