History A-Level
Economic dependency and sharecropping
What Economic dependency and sharecropping means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Economic dependency and sharecropping
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Most ex-slaves owned no land, tools or capital, so they farmed a landlord's plot in return for a share of the crop, often trapped by debt and crop liens.
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