Examples of 'sharecroppers' in a sentence

Meaning of "sharecroppers"

A sharecropper is a farmer who works on land owned by someone else and pays a portion of the crops or profits as rent for using the land. This system is common in agriculture, especially in the past
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They were sharecroppers and not even being paid.
A good many are now marginal farmers or sharecroppers.
His parents were sharecroppers on the plantation.
I do not see why you are so upset about sharecroppers.
The renters and sharecroppers left to seek safer places.
Mom said the elves were sharecroppers.
Sharecroppers are housed in the castle which then will start to degrade.
Stop working with sharecroppers or else.
It was a peaceful and lawful gathering of sharecroppers.
And tell them that sharecroppers are just wage earners.
Moore grew up the son of sharecroppers.
As a result some sharecroppers have a higher standard of living than landowners.
This prevented exploitation of the sharecroppers by the landowners.
The sharecroppers had it the worst and were doomed to eternal poverty.
About how they killed a hundred colored sharecroppers.

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Sharecroppers in the south after the civil war the cost.
About how they killed a hundred coloured sharecroppers.
The teenagers were children of sharecroppers and had been picking cotton all day.
I just came back to see some of the sharecroppers.
I have studied this world of sharecroppers and juke joints my entire life.
They were later replaced by black sharecroppers.
At that time sharecroppers had contracted to give half of their harvest to the landlords.
In this country we called them sharecroppers.
The sharecroppers begin unpacking extravagant gifts to themselves from their new accounts.
And all my family has always been sharecroppers since slavery.
Joe and other sharecroppers went to see the rancher to tell him what was happening.
His parents were sharecroppers.
Children of black sharecroppers and farm labourers have few employment opportunities in mechanized agriculture.
His father peddled dry goods to the black sharecroppers.
They were sharecroppers.
I come from five generations of people that was slaves and sharecroppers.
We are just sharecroppers.
Effie and her siblings worked alongside their father as sharecroppers.
Sharecroppers win or lose for the same reasons that enrich or impoverish their master.
He was born to a family of sharecroppers.
They gave Maddox sharecroppers enough money to build a school.
He came from a family of sharecroppers.
It will help sharecroppers in Mississippi.
He comes from a family of sharecroppers.
Used to be sharecroppers in Alabama.
Purchasing land should not involve the dispossession of poor sharecroppers.
He argued against the feudal system that kept sharecroppers and small farmers in perpetual poverty.
She visited over seventy churches and picked cotton with the sharecroppers.
Jefferson was one of eight children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson.
After emancipation many freed slaves and family members stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers.
His parents are sharecroppers.
Stokes spent her early years growing up in Mississippi as the youngest daughter of sharecroppers.
A few are also sharecroppers.
Mays was born in the Jim Crow South on a repurposed cotton plantation to freed sharecroppers.
About how they killed a hundred colored sharecroppers for trying to organize.

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