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sharecrop

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Definition of sharecrop

as in to farm

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Recent Examples of sharecrop My grandmother, who left school after fourth grade to sharecrop Georgia fields, is 46 and has already spent more than two thirds of her life cleaning white people’s homes. — Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023 Most of that Southern land returned to white owners, who allowed former slaves to sharecrop for pennies on the dollar. — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020 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 See All Example Sentences for sharecrop

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Advertisement For me, a son of the American Southwest, where my family has farmed and ranched for over 400 years, this is personal.

— Ken Salazar, Time, 20 July 2026
The war has also affected fertilizer supplies and prices, threatening the planting season and worsening the fate of mostly farming communities in northern Nigeria who have struggled to access their farmlands amid a deadly conflict with armed groups.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026

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The grass and roots can then be raked out after tilling the soil and before planting flowers.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
The soil, Hakena Hulitt said, was hard, dry and cracked from being farmed with heavy machinery, and has been rejuvenated with compost, tilling and learning how to keep weeds at bay without pesticides.

— Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026

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