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

Also potentially relevant was the rise of the black Sharecroppers Union in Depression-era rural Alabama.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2020

Sharecroppers often became trapped in a never-ending cycle of debt, unable to buy their own land and unable to stop working for their creditor because of what they owed.

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