Answer:
In debt to the landowner for everything, the sharecropper rarely worked up from poverty. Tenant farming, also required farmers to work someone else's land and pay rent with a portion of the crop yield. But the tenants usually at least owned a small home, farm tools, and a horse or mule.
Short Answer: Tenants had some of their own possessions while sharecroppers didn't and owed the landowner completely.
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