| There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers. |
| He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers. |
| 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. |
| The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
| His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers. |
| The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers. |
