The best answer here is tenant farmers. They differed from sharecroppers in that tenant farmers actually owned some private property, though that was limited to farming implements. Sharecroppers, on the other hand, only had their labor to give. Neither, however, had ultimate rights to the land on which they worked, since it was owned by wealthy, often elite Southerners.
You can clearly tell that this is trying to persuade you into buying a product. this may work if they like the person selling the product. because it says "you buy one, lest I perish."
