LibGuides: MS Reading-Roll of Thunder: Sharecropping

Sharecropping and Farming

New Deal Farm Laws
The New Deal and farming in the 1930s
Slave to Sharecropper
Primary Source material on slavery into sharecropping from PBS.
Slavery by Another Name
Brief videos describing sharecropping.
Tenant Farming and Sharecropping
Sharecropping (from New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Although this article focuses on Georgia, it represents the system throughout the South.
Rise of Sharecropping (PBS)