tenant farmer

"The new Sustainable Farming Scheme has been designed to be accessible to all farmers, including new entrants and tenant farmers," a spokesperson added.

"This will hit the very poorest of farmers hardest, and in particular tenant farmers who'll not be able to afford the rent, and within a year we might be seeing people evicted because of that."

He was the grandson of former slaves and the youngest of 10 children in a family of Alabama tenant farmers.

If tenant farmers paid a fee equal to one year's net value of the land, it earned them a seven-year lease.

The famine heightened tensions between native Irish tenant farmers and the British ruling class, ultimately putting forces in motion that would lead to Irish independence by the early 20th century.