sharecropper

Noun

Meaning

small farmers and tenants

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In addition to her collected short stories and poetry, Walker's first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland– which follows the life of Grange Copeland, an abusive, irresponsible sharecropper, father, and husband– was published in 1970. Source: Internet

Class described the difference between a sharecropper and a plantation owner, between the enslaved person being worked to death in a Caribbean sugar field and an investor living in London on dividends from the sugar trade. Source: Internet

At the age of 10, he worked alongside his father in the hard work of the camp; sometimes he would do it as a laborer, receiving a meager salary; others as a sharecropper, where he had to give the owner of the land, part of the harvested product. Source: Internet

He was born June 26, 1914, in Erath to sharecropper Lastie Theriot and the former Emerite Barras. Source: Internet

He was born the sixth child of a sharecropper to Barney Starnes and Cora Mae Hawkins Starnes on Oct. 9, 1932, near Wills Point, Texas, where he graduated high school in the class of 1950. Source: Internet

Fiddler and harmony singer embodies the moonshine character, and gifted pianist portrays the sharecropper. Source: Internet

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