Sharecropping and tenant farming replaced the slave-dependent plantation system. As an economic system, slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping and convict leasing. Lanning refers to this relationship as that of sharecropping, as opposed to serfdom. The Act further prohibited the practice of serfdom or sharecropping. The blacks worked as farm laborers, or as tenants under the sharecropping system. African Americans had to resort to sharecropping and tenant farming to survive. The system was implemented through a system of sharecropping or lease-tenancy. They had to resort to sharecropping and tenant farming to survive. Both of his parents were children of former slaves, alternating between sharecropping and rental farming. But many lost everything and fell into tenancy and sharecropping. Under the sharecropping system Pliny's slaves would act as overseers. Sharecropping increased utilizing land that had been for animal pasturage. They, therefore, allowed African farmers to work the excess on a sharecropping basis. Many soon turned to sharecropping and forced labor in the South. What's more, sharecropping blacks who registered to vote were getting evicted from their homes.