What are comparisons that can be made between free labor (referring to sharecropping) and slave labor?
Sharecropping is when anyone lives and/or works on land that is not theirs and in return for their effort they pay no bills. Slaves pretty much did the same thing accept for the fact that they were the property of the land owner, without the choice of weather they wanted to work or not. Sharecroppers could decide they didn't want to do it any more and leave, slaves couldn't. The difference between the two is freedom, sharecroppers where free people, slaves were not. I got it from here: https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090428114413AATVQ5V Also, sharecroppers had the option to choose who to work for; whereas, slave labourers did not.
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