Example Sentences

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Sharecroppers and tenant farmers working other people’s land depended on the harvest for their income.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Ms. Quinn worked with Wilson for nearly two decades beginning in the 1970s at the National Sharecroppers Fund, an advocacy organization for migrant workers.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2016

Sharecroppers paid their landlords with the crops they grew, often as much as half their harvest.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Mr. Causey is generally liked in the delta town of Blytheville, among the farmers, merchants and mechanics who gather every morning to dissect politics and biscuits at Poor Boy’s Café, Sharecroppers and The Dixie Pig.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2010

Sharecroppers could only keep a portion of their harvest and the rest went to the landowner.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson