Sharecropping
From: Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
Grade Level: MS, HS
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1 Class Period or Less
Length of Reading: Paragraphs
Link: Sharecropping
According to SHEG, "In this lesson, students critically evaluate their classroom textbook's account of sharecropping by comparing it to a sharecropping contract from 1882." Teachers must provide sharecropping section from their textbook. Students look at the sharecropper contract in pairs, answer questions, then discuss it as a class.
If your textbook's sharecropping section isn't easily accessible, Anti-textbook recommends this one from Open Stax free online textbook. Just scroll down to the 3rd heading, "Sharecropping."
Here's another sharecropping contract from another source, just in case you'd like to add one: Sharecropping Contract.
More Information:
Grade Level:
MS, HS: This lesson is meant for middle school and high school students
This Activity Involves:
Primary Source: This activity utilizes primary sources.
Image: Lange, Dorothea. “Negro Sharecropper and Wife.” Library of Congress, 1937, https://lccn.loc.gov/2017770268. Accessed: 6.17.2020.
