Meaning & use
Sharecropper
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A tenant farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in the form of a share of the crop produced.
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After the Civil War, many former slaves became sharecroppers on the same plantations.
The novel follows a sharecropper family struggling through the Great Depression.
A note on using this word
Sharecropping became widespread in the post-Civil War American South, often trapping farmers in cycles of debt to landowners.
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landowner
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