How to Use sharecrop in a Sentence
sharecrop
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Smith, who quit school in the third grade to sharecrop on an Arkansas farm, has secured a fairly stable life for his family.
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Simon Montlake,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 June 2017
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His mom was an orphan, and his father, from a sharecropping family in Mississippi, never learned to read or write.
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The Washington Post,
NOLA.com,
18 Aug. 2017
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But her father, Marion, was determined to end the legacy of sharecropping in his family.
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Ellen McGirt,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2019
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The most common arrangement after the Civil War was a share tenant or sharecropping arrangement.
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The Root,
12 Jan. 2018
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Like Glen Campbell, Webb’s family business was sharecropping.
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Longreads,
3 Sep. 2019
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The shadow of slavery, sharecropping and Jim Crow has left black farmers in an especially precarious position.
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Isaac Arnsdorf,
ProPublica,
26 June 2019
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Not all cotton farms had slaves; Newby said his family didn’t own slaves, while McMichen said his family began working in the fields during sharecropping days, after the slave era.
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William Thornton | [email protected],
al.com,
14 July 2019
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