Sharecropping and tenant farming were two types of farming in post Civil War Mississippi. Many acres of fields were destroyed and the Mississippi economy was very damaged after the Civil War, so there was a lot of pressure put on to the farmers to get the post-war Mississippi economy running smoothly again. Many newly freed slaves and other Mississippians resorted to sharecropping and tenant farming, which have many similarities and differences.

Sharecropping and tenant farming share many similarities. Firstly, both tenant farmers and sharecroppers worked another man’s land and did not have a farm or land of their own. Both types of laborers grew crops, like cotton or corn, on a large plantation owner’s land. Secondly, both varieties of