[TexConfederate1861]

I have to disagree about "sharecropping" being slavery. My Great-Grandparents, were very poor sharecroppers, but were very proud people. My Grandmother has told me that if the landowner treated his croppers fairly, it was ok.

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My Great-Grandparents, were very poor sharecroppers, but were very proud people. My Grandmother has told me that if the landowner treated his croppers fairly, it was ok.

Slaves could be "proud people" and slavemasters could treat his slaves "fairly" and it would be "ok". But I sure as hell wouldn't recommend being either a slave or a sharecropper. The major difference, especially for blacks, was that the landowner didn't own his children as well.