Thesaurus results for SHARECROP

sharecrop

verb

as in to farm

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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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There’s a multi-generational collective of Shinnecock women in New York who farm kelp to clean up a bay.

— Fortune, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Since the early 1930s, Flora’s family has farmed in the region.

— Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025