sharecropper in the PONS Dictionary

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All the land was registered in the name of the sharecroppers, the new farm owners.
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It was settled in the 1920s by sharecroppers.
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This region held the highest black population of any in the state and the sharecropper population provided a natural constituency.
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The church community consisted of poor miners, sharecroppers, and a few black families.
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As sharecroppers were often illiterate, they had to depend on the books and accounting by the landowner and his staff.
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Many descendants of freed slaves continued to work as sharecroppers and laborers after emancipation.
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This exploitive system bound the sharecropper to the land for yet another season, continuing the cycle of hard-bitten poverty.
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Others were day laborers or impoverished sharecroppers, who worked under the supervision of the landowner.
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Over the period 1977-90, the fraction of registered sharecroppers rose from 23 to 65%.
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The agreement would also indicate whether the sharecropper would use his own equipment to raise the crops, or use the landlord's equipment.
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