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sharecropper

[shair-krop-er] / ˈʃɛərˌkrɒp ər /


NOUN
tenant farmer
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The first Arhoolie record, released in 1960, was “Texas Sharecropper and Songster,” by the blues singer Mance Lipscomb.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Arhoolie’s first release was Mance Lipscomb’s “Texas Sharecropper and Songster,” for which Strachwitz and friends personally assembled 250 copies.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

Among editorial illustrators, Bernarda Bryson Shahn’s striking 1930s lithograph “Arkansas Sharecropper and Wife” reads like a bleaker companion piece to Grant Wood’s similarly composed “American Gothic.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2018

"Mance Lipscomb, Texas Sharecropper and Songster," was recorded in 1960 in the musician's shotgun house, and it launched Lipscomb into the surging U.S. folk-music revival.

From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2013

What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins.

From Time Magazine Archive




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