Because it was an inhumane way to treat people. My great great grand father was a sharcropper. The owners of the land make it where you cant get ahead and get a good life. They make sure you always owe them money so you cant leave. It was a legal form of slavery.
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sharecropping did not cause the civil war but it happened after when they couldnt have slaves anymore
After the Civil War.
Many people turned to sharecropping because they didn't know how to farm their own land.
southern states
sharecropping