: 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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Recent Examples on the WebThe posting also claimed it was used as a sharecropper cabin and later, a medical office. Melissa Noel, Essence, 19 Aug. 2022 Woodson had spent his early years working as a sharecropper and a coal miner to help support his struggling family. Regina Hall, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022 The San Diego Reader reported that Mr. Morrow’s father saved enough as a sharecropper, with a side operation in bootleg whiskey, to pay for his son to attend barber school in San Diego. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 7 July 2022 Rick Neighbors is the son of a sharecropper in North Carolina and an Army veteran who volunteered and served three tours in the Vietnam War. Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al, 20 May 2022 He was born in Hayti, Missouri, and his father was a sharecropper who moonlighted as a guitarist. Steve Knopper, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022 Frank McDougald watched the film with his mom, Hilda, 101, who left her family’s home in Mansura, La., where her father was a sharecropper, and came to D.C. to process payroll for soldiers.Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021 Earlier that summer, his great-uncle, a sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta, arrived in Chicago telling fantastic tales about life in the country that intrigued the boy. Arluther Lee, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020 Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022 See More