Definition of sharecrop
: to farm (land) or produce (a crop) as a sharecropper
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The most common arrangement after the Civil War was a share tenant or sharecropping arrangement.
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My mom and her nine siblings grew up sharecropping in SC.
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That is a tribute to Recy Taylor, a black woman from a rural Alabama sharecropping family who was gang-raped by six white men in 1944.
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Genus was a field hand on the farm that Elma Jesup sharecrops alongside her father, Juke, and a mute black girl, 14-year-old Nan Smith.
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Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film is an adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s 2008 novel about two families: The sharecropping Jacksons, who are black, lease land from the white McAllans.
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His mom was an orphan, and his father, from a sharecropping family in Mississippi, never learned to read or write.
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Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles southwest of Little Rock, Ark., between Billstown and Delight, where his father sharecropped 120 acres of cotton.
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Smith, who quit school in the third grade to sharecrop on an Arkansas farm, has secured a fairly stable life for his family.
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Origin and Etymology of sharecrop
back-formation from sharecropper
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First Known Use: circa 1930
in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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Definition of sharecrop for Students
sharecropped;
sharecropping
: to farm another's land for a share of the crop or profit
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sharecropper
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