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Crop-lien system

The crop-lien system was a system that became widely used by cotton farmers in the United States in the South from the 1860s to the 1940s. HistoryIn the crop-lien system, sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who did not own the land they worked, obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants.

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