{"id":520,"date":"2009-11-06T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-10-14T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:17:47","slug":"white-sharecroppers-on-southern-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/white-sharecroppers-on-southern-plantations\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sharecroppers on Southern Plantations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_482\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-152-white-sharecroppers-on-wessyngton-plantation1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-482\" title=\"White Sharecroppers on Wessyngton Plantation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-152-white-sharecroppers-on-wessyngton-plantation1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"White Sharecroppers on Wessyngton Plantation\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-152-white-sharecroppers-on-wessyngton-plantation1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-152-white-sharecroppers-on-wessyngton-plantation1-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-152-white-sharecroppers-on-wessyngton-plantation1.jpg 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Sharecroppers on Wessyngton Plantation<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">After the Civil War several former Wessyngton slaves remained on the plantation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Others moved to Nashville, to the north, surrounding counties and some purchased their own farms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">When the former slaves left the area many white farmers and African Americans came to Wessyngton Plantation and became sharecroppers and resided in the former slave cabins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">Under the sharecropping system, the landowner received two thirds of the crop and the tenant or sharecropper only received one third of the crop.\u00a0 The sharecropper was provided a house, mules, land, seed and fetilizer.\u00a0 They raised crops of tobacco, corn, wheat and rye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">African American and white sharecroppers continued farming on Wessyngton Plantation until the property was sold by the Washington family in 1983 nearly 200 years after the plantation was founded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Civil War several former Wessyngton slaves remained on the plantation.\u00a0 Others moved to Nashville, to the north, surrounding counties and some purchased their own farms.\u00a0 When the former slaves left the area many white farmers and African Americans came to Wessyngton Plantation and became sharecroppers and resided in the former slave cabins. 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