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The story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression.
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Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
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Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
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Generations of sharecroppers farmed the land, called the Franklin Farms megasite, until 2006, when the Franklin family sold it to the state of Louisiana, which then hoped to attract an auto plant.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Ramsden, who is thirty-one, grew up in the Lowveld region of South Africa, where his family managed a game reserve, farming livestock and sourcing wildlife, including lions, hippos, elephants, and rhinos, for export.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Additionally, tilling wet soil can do more harm than good by creating dense soil layers and deep ruts.—
Nora Doonan,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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Aggressive turning or tilling harms microorganisms, kills beneficial insects and earthworms, increases erosion, removes air pockets, releases carbon into the atmosphere and brings dormant weed seeds to the surface, where conditions are perfect for their growth.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Sharecrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecrop. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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