sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈsher-ˌkrä-pər 
: a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges
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The daughter of sharecroppers, she was raised by her grandparents.
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Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.
—Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Wanzo, the son of a sharecropper, was born in Pike County, Mississippi, in 1926.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Shuttling between past and present, Simpson traces her mother’s hardscrabble journey as the daughter of North Carolina sharecroppers who excels in school and becomes a teacher, then a mother, then a single mother of two.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.
—Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Wanzo, the son of a sharecropper, was born in Pike County, Mississippi, in 1926.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Shuttling between past and present, Simpson traces her mother’s hardscrabble journey as the daughter of North Carolina sharecroppers who excels in school and becomes a teacher, then a mother, then a single mother of two.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sharecropper. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈshe(ə)r-ˌkräp-ər
ˈsha(ə)r-
: a farmer who works land for the owner in return for a share of the value of the crop
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