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Meanings of sharecropping in English

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Usage of sharecropping in English
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Fanny Lou Hamer-oneof 11 children of a sharecropping family in Mississippi.
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This sharecropping in the South is grand larceny on a grand scale.
In the Land of Jim Crow
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Born in 1892, she was near last in a Texas sharecropping family of thirteen.
Ebony
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In all his sharecropping, Henry has never seen any kind of account of his operations.
In the Land of Jim Crow
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The prewar slave plantation was replaced by sharecropping, tenant farming, and the convict lease system.
The Black Experience in America
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Five years was the longest he ever worked on one plantation in his years of sharecropping.
In the Land of Jim Crow
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Hitch and Donna Martin are sharecropping the place.
Her mother's hope
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While I was farming, I did some sharecropping, but I never got cheated out of anything.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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Religious holidays became reasons to escape from the hardships of slavery, then from sharecropping and Jim Crow.
Ebony
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How is that any different than sharecropping?
Ebony
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My father died and mother started sharecropping.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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He was a young man by then, still sharecropping in the bleak economy after the First World War.
The prince of frogtown
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The advocacy of sharecropping was not the only reflection of Percy's sensitivity to the inefficiencies of racial animosity.
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It would take ten thousand such projects to make even a dent in the South's evil sharecropping system.
In the Land of Jim Crow
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Black farmers, meanwhile, struggled to free themselves from sharecropping while also struggling to buy their own land- an ongoing issue.
Ebony
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Then, the "two peoples" were shaped by rival economic models: industry and the free market versus sharecropping and slavery.
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