Since the slaves did’t want to work for wages because they would still have to do what they were told by whites. The solution was sharecropping. These labor contacts were know as a form of land rent. It allowed freedman to use a portion of a landowner’s property to grow crops. However, the deal was the freedman was responsible for producing the crop and paid for the tenancy with a portion of it at the end of the season. The result was unfair to the freedman because many plantation owners had stores where freedmen bought supplies, such as seed, fertilizer, tools and even food, clothing and medicine on credit. Moreover, the freedmen’s crop was used to offset what was owned at the end of harvest season. At the end, the freedmen walked away with
