2 TermsHome > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Sharecropping
Sharecropping
A system of labour to replace slavery that allowed landless farmers to work the land of others for a share of the crops they produced. It was favoured by freed people over gang labour but often resulted in virtual peonage.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: proper noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: History
- Category: American history
- Company: University of Houston
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Bradley Manning
Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17 1987) is a United States Army Private who was arrested in May 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq, for what is widely ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
lemony
0
Terms
1
Blossaries
0
Followers
Classifications of Cardiovascular Death
Category: Health 1 2 Terms
2 TermsBrowers Terms By Category
- Electricity(962)
- Gas(53)
- Sewage(2)
Utilities(1017) Terms
- Cultural anthropology(1621)
- Physical anthropology(599)
- Mythology(231)
- Applied anthropology(11)
- Archaeology(6)
- Ethnology(2)
Anthropology(2472) Terms
- Printers(127)
- Fax machines(71)
- Copiers(48)
- Office supplies(22)
- Scanners(9)
- Projectors(3)
Office equipment(281) Terms
- General astronomy(781)
- Astronaut(371)
- Planetary science(355)
- Moon(121)
- Comets(101)
- Mars(69)
Astronomy(1901) Terms
- Social media(480)
- Internet(195)
- Search engines(29)
- Online games(22)
- Ecommerce(21)
- SEO(8)