Describe the system of sharecropping. how did it impact people living in the south?

Sharecropping is a farming term in which the land owner rents out the land to the farmer and receives a portion of the crops produced on the land in exchange. When slavery ended sharecropping was a way for poor farmers (white and black) to survive. Sharecropping started when large plantations were subdivided. Farmers grew cash crops such as tobacco, sugar, rice, cotton etc.