sharecroppers in English

noun
1
a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.
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1. This is just like the white plantation bosses making all the decisions for his black sharecroppers.

2. Carolina Maria de Jesus was born in Minas Gerais, a rural community where her parents were sharecroppers.

3. Synonyms for Agrarians include agriculturalists, agronomists, crofters, dairy farmers, farmers, growers, market gardeners, planters, ranchers and sharecroppers

4. The county administrator grew up poor, the son of sharecroppers, in a house with no indoor plumbing.

5. The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers.

6. 11 Those who drive the illegal opium industry, Walters said, "are the landowners, who force sharecroppers to grow poppy, rather than licit agricultural products."

7. The classic, angled furniture of the Aurora Crofter collection was heavily inspired by the simple furniture used in the Scottish Highlands by the Crofters (Scottish sharecroppers)

8. The classic, angled furniture of the Aurora Crofter bedroom collection was heavily inspired by the simple furniture used in the Scottish Highlands by the Crofters (Scottish sharecroppers)

9. She is the daughter of Elsie Foggie Long and Charley Long, sharecroppers with a tenth and third grade education, respectively, and the fourth child in a family of six children.