Read the quote by henry adams again. how did he view the system of sharecropping? sharecropping was better than slavery. sharecropping was worse than slavery sharecropping was the same as slavery. the largest majority of the people, of the white people, that held us as slaves treats our people so bad in many respects that it is impossible for them to stand it. now, in a great many parts of that country there our people most as well be slaves as to be free.