USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Approximately two-thirds of all sharecroppers were white, and one third were black. Though both groups were at the bottom of the social ladder, sharecroppers began to organize for better working rights, and the integrated Southern Tenant Farmers Union began to gain power in the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-2: -In rural villages these jotedars exercised more control than the Zamindars, who often lived in urban areas. The large agricultural areas under the jotedars were cultivated through sharecroppers (also known as bhagadars), who handed over half of the crop after the harvest to the jotedars.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited both parties. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton, but they did not need to pay these laborers money, a major benefit in a post-war Georgia that was cash poor but land rich.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sharecropping system required the tenants to grow indigo, a major commercial crop, on 15 percent of their landholdings. Every year, the grown indigo harvest was given as rent to the landlord. However, on hearing about the German synthetic indigo, the British decided to draw a new agreement with peasants.