What is "sharecropper"

Usage examples of "sharecropper".

Lately, lots of hungry black sharecroppers had come into Augusta from the nearby cotton farms and cornfields.

Defined as a condition of enforced servitude by which the servitor is compelled to labor in liquidation of some debt or obligation, either real or pretended, against his will, peonage was found to have been unconstitutionally sanctioned by an Alabama statute, directed at defaulting sharecroppers, which imposed a criminal liability and subjected to imprisonment farm workers or tenants who abandoned their employment, breached their contracts, and exercised their legal right to enter into employment of a similar nature with another person.

Rural African Americans working as sharecroppers in the South and whites from the hills of Tennessee and Kentucky were drawn to the factories of Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere with the promise of big money.

There are many kinds of writers: the highbrows, the packagers, the high fantasists, the low fantasists, the horror writers, the hard sf writers, the soft sf writers, the feminists, the series writers, the producers of movie and TV tie-ins, the sharecroppers.

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union started in Arkansas, with black and white sharecroppers, and spread to other areas.

His story is a tiny piece of the great unrecorded drama of the southern poor in those years of the Sharecroppers Union.

And the reason is that over half of all farmers in Bangladesh are like Sari and her family: sharecroppers with not a pot to piss in, who must answer to wealthier landowners, the zamindars.

And because the whole fertilizer mentality is about profit, it also entails a corollary of subsequent slave labor, migrants, homeless sharecroppers such as you witnessed in Bangladesh, and can find circulating the company farms of America.

They saw landowners and sharecroppers, piloting their huge Deeres, Masseys, and IHs.

You could see a poor sunken hookwormy sharecropper in bib overalls trying to push a rusty plow through some eroded ground that was more gully than topsoil, aided by a mule with all his ribs showing, while off to one side the man's sallow hollow-socketed pellagra-ravaged wife with a swollen eight-month belly covered by a dress made from a fertilizer sack leans up against their shack to catch her breath or else to prop up the side wall.