<span>Once slavery was abolished, the south was in turmoil due to their strong reliance for plantations to generate income. Finding a new method was not as simple as you would think. Eventually, they settled on two methods. Sharecropping was popular with both the tobacco and cotton crops while sugar plantations relied heavily on wage labor.</span>
After the slavery was abolished in the south, the type of
cheap labor that the plantations rely on is through sharecropping. This is
considered to be a form of agriculture in which the tenant has been allowed by
a landowner in using his or her land but in exchange of sharing the crops that
the tenants produced on the land.
