Sharecropper

Definition

sharecropper /'ʃeǝkrɒpǝ(r)/ n ( esp US ) သီးစား။

Examples

1. ‘And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves
2. who often worked alongside them in the fields.’
3. ‘Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census.’
4. ‘This meant white farm owners were paid to let their land sit idle
5. often resulting in the eviction of sharecroppers and tenant farmers
6. a significant number of whom were African American.’
7. ‘Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor
8. and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.’
9. ‘He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers.’
10. ‘Though serfs were freed in 1864
11. they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.’
12. ‘The book opens in 1874 in Delta
13. Louisiana
14. on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers.’
15. ‘We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm
16. trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter
17. pushing a hand plow.’
18. ‘There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers
19. sharecroppers
20. and casual laborers.’
21. ‘For example
22. in 1941
23. the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression.’
24. ‘Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants
25. closely supervised by plantation owners or managers.’
26. ‘As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments
27. sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.’
28. ‘Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers
29. or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.’
30. ‘Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters
31. one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history.’
32. ‘The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.’
33. ‘Maybe it was that I was raised in a sharecropper's farm or that I never owned anything until I bought that house
34. but I loved my little home.’
35. ‘The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours
36. fellow farmers and sharecroppers.’
37. ‘But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest
38. and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off.’
39. ‘Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s
40. all grew up poor
41. most came from farming families
42. and many were sharecroppers.’
43. ‘Many tenants subrented their farms to sharecroppers or hired others to work for them
44. so that their economic interests often more closely resembled those of farm owners than farm workers.’