How to Use sharecrop in a Sentence

sharecrop

verb

• My mom and her nine siblings grew up sharecropping in SC.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 Feb. 2018
• Smith, who quit school in the third grade to sharecrop on an Arkansas farm, has secured a fairly stable life for his family.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2017
• His mom was an orphan, and his father, from a sharecropping family in Mississippi, never learned to read or write.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Not all cotton farms had slaves; Newby said his family didn’t own slaves, while McMichen said his family began working in the fields during sharecropping days, after the slave era.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 14 July 2019
• The most common arrangement after the Civil War was a share tenant or sharecropping arrangement.
  — The Root, 12 Jan. 2018
• But her father, Marion, was determined to end the legacy of sharecropping in his family.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2019
• Lowndes County is part of the Black Belt—the swathe of land named for its fertile topsoil which produced vast amounts of cotton on the back of slave labour and, later, sharecropping, and where emancipated black workers farmed rented land.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Like Glen Campbell, Webb’s family business was sharecropping.
  — Longreads, 3 Sep. 2019
• The shadow of slavery, sharecropping and Jim Crow has left black farmers in an especially precarious position.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 26 June 2019
• The film is muscular and sprawling, telling the long and complicated story of two families sharing the same fraught space: a Mississippi Delta farm, owned by a white family and worked on, for generations, by a sharecropping black family.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 27 Jan. 2017

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