![]() ![]() It is a numbers game and no matter how much economic might private ownership endows, inevitably ten or twenty or fifty always outnumbers one. It is essential to keep distance between his tenants so that the power of union was blunted. This quote occur quite early in the novel and is a way of conveying both that power in the hands of the landowner and his fear of the power of being outnumbered. It was essentially an offshoot of slavery in which all the power remained in the hands of the landowner and the sharecropper remains at the mercy of the owner for his own livelihood. The owner of a large piece of land would extend tenancy to a person-usually black-in exchange for a percentage of the profit earned from growing crops on the land. Sharecropping was an economic system which developed in the South by necessity in the wake of the emancipation of the slaves. ![]() The black family at the center of the narrative are sharecroppers. The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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