- Sharecropping would define the method of land lease that would eventually become a new form of slavery.
- The whites assighned what the blacks would grow in their " fair share" of crops.
- The whites tricked the blacks into farming all of the crops in the land and didn't pay them extra money.
- In return, the african americans, had little to sell and not enough food or money to feed or take care of their family and almost no pay.
- The blacks had to sign a Crop Fixed Rent Contract before share cropping with the whites including that the the whites had to give half of their harvest.
- Women had no right but were able to work on the farms for free.
Barbara’s Artist Statement:
This quilt piece is showing the African Americans sharecropping with the whites, and how the African Americans worked so hard for so little pay. Sometimes the whites would trick the blacks into farming every crop in the farm when really, they were only supposed to work on their own crops and the whites were supposed to do theirs all on their own. This event soon turned into a trick, a scheme and then started to become a whole other form of slavery. It took the African Americans a while to figure this out, the whites would take advantage of them and put them to work and make them work way more than they were supposed to without giving them more money. When the blacks wanted to quit the contract that they signed wouldn’t let them. Once again, the whites were tricking the blacks and the blacks didn’t like it at all.
- Barbara
SIERRA'S ARTEST STATEMENT
OUR QUILT PIECE IS SHOWING THE HARD WORK OF RECONSTRUCTING A NEW LIFE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. SHARECROPPING WAS A FORM OF SHARING LAND THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME A NEW FORM OF SLAVERY. THEY ALSO HADE TO GIVE THE WHITE PLANTATION OWNERS HAFE THERE HARVEST. THAT LEFT THEM WITH ONLY A LITTLE FOR THEM SELFS TO USE FOR MONEY AND HAVE FOOD FOR THERE FAMILY'S. WHILE SOMETIMES THE FARMERS TRICKED THEM INTO FARMING THERE OWN CROPPS.
-SIERRA
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