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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Prior Knowledge

1. Explanation of Sharecropping

How is sharecropping similar to slavery? It was a labor for land trade. When the slave practice was ended, landowners had no way to find cheap labor to work his vast acreages and the former slaves and many poor white southerners had no land of their own on which to live or to farm. A contracted trade off was made, where, for a share of the designated crop, land was provided to the sharecropper. It was a system that provided mutual benefit to both parties but was easily corrupted (landowners often cheated or took advantage of the sharecroppers lack of education) and often led to a new kind of economic ($$$- it created poverty) slavery.

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3. Themes or topics to consider: family, quiet (or silence), and racism.

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