| Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers. |
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| But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest, and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off. |
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| Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census. |
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| Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers. |
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| As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land. |
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| His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers. |
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| Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers. |
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| The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
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| There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers. |
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| He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers. |
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| And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields. |
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| The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers. |
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| Most Haitians live in rural areas as sharecroppers working infertile land. |
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| The rest of the time they have to find work as sharecroppers, or migrate to cities to work as professional beggars. |
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| The Great Depression had devastating effects on sharecroppers, as did the South's continued overproduction and overemphasis on cotton production. |
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| Brimmer was the son of sharecroppers and attended local segregated schools. |
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| His early piecture were considered shockingly unartistic: graveyards, sharecroppers, tenement, scenes. |
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| It carried doctors and nurses who had come to do a study among the syphilitic sharecroppers. |
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| This study involved mostly illiterate African American sharecroppers who had syphilis. |
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| Seasonal sharecroppers have little incentive to improve access to and reclaim rice land, since the owner can claim it once it has been improved. |
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| About 60 percent of farmers are functionally landless, working as sharecroppers on terrain owned by landlords. |
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| Farmers working on their own land invest more in terms of labor and other productivity-enhancing improvements than do sharecroppers. |
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| According to my godmother, sharecroppers did not read these magazines, too expensive for them. |
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| Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation. |
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| Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable. |
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| For example, in 1941, the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression. |
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| Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history. |
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| Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery. |
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| By 1910, a majority of black farmers in the Delta had lost their land and become sharecroppers. |
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| In the case of freed slaves of the United States, many became sharecroppers and indentured servants. |
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| A new alternative was to lease the demesne to paid managers or sharecroppers, but this practice spread more slowly in France than in neighbouring countries. |
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| The boll weevil infestation and agricultural problems had cost sharecroppers and farmers their jobs. |
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| At the same time, the patron-client relationship between landowners and sharecroppers enables landowners to recruit children of their sharecroppers to serve in their urban homes. |
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| The son of sharecroppers, he was functionally illiterate. |
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| Some land is leased out to sharecroppers, but this is not common. |
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| The impact of the very radical poppy ban left thousands of small landowners and sharecroppers as well as farm workers without their major source of income. |
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| While most first worked as sharecroppers, the Chinese worked as families to improve their lives. |
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| He has much more to say of the cruel problems of the small, land-poor families and the sharecroppers than I knew from my own experience. |
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| Victorian elites castigated in equal measure Indian ryot farmers, Irish cottier tenants and African sharecroppers as primitive, idle, mendacious and improvident. |
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| The poorest remain the landless, sharecroppers, whose farming plots of land are too small or too dry to provide for their needs, nomadic pastoralists and subsistence fishing communities. |
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| By the 1930s, whites constituted most of the sharecroppers in the South. |
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