What were the economic and social effects of sharecropping and tenant farming?

Sharecroppers and tenants rarely broke out of this system to become landowners themselves. Since the Civil War ended slavery, all the money that was invested in slaves was wiped out. The plantation economy - huge farms producing cotton or tobacco or rice based on forced labor - was destroyed.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

is this question from a book? ?