What is Tenant farming?
'''Tenant farming''' is when the person who works the farmland does not own the land themselves. The farmer pays rent to the landowner, either with cash or with a portion of the produce. When the rent is a share of the crop, it is [[sharecropping]]. Many freed [[slave]]s during the [[Reconstruction of the United States]] who owned no land became tenant farmers, [[renting]] land from a great landowner. [[Category:Agriculture]] [[Category:Labor]] {{stub}}