sharecrop

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Recent Examples of sharecrop The story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression. Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020 The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending. Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020 The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago. David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019 Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office. Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for sharecrop
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  • Each agave plant takes at least seven years to mature and is farmed without pesticides or chemicals before being roasted, fermented, and distilled in copper stills.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Johnson, who began growing collard greens at 3, now farms on about an acre of land that has been passed down in the family.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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  • The fragrance of dry grass mingled in the air with the dust kicked up by a tractor tilling in the distance.
    Elena Valeriote, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But as a foundation, the first season tills fertile ground with rich initial results.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Sharecrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecrop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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