Synonyms of sharecroppers

sharecroppers

noun

plural of sharecropper

as in homesteaders

a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops

grew up the child of a poor sharecropper

Related Words

• homesteaders
• cultivators
• croppers
• agriculturists
• growers
• planters
• tenant farmers
• harvesters
• yeomen
• subsistence farmers
• farmhands
• agronomists
• crofters
• tillers
• ranchers
• gentlemen farmers
• gleaners
• plowmen
• reapers
• field hands
• ranchmen
• campesinos
• grangers
• nesters
• workfolks
• rancheros

Dissimilar Words

• nonfarmers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sharecroppers

Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York, Gibson lived in a world far from white country clubs or Black luxury. — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026

All my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi before migrating to Gary in the late 1920s. — Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026

Black sharecroppers and farm workers used music to process segregation, deep poverty and systemic violence. — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026

The second looked at life among migrant workers, sharecroppers and others dwelling in mountain areas. — ABC News, 7 June 2026

Meanwhile, her parents lost their jobs; her grandparents, who were sharecroppers, were forced off the land; and the grocery store refused to serve her family. — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026

His father, Walter Riley, was one of eleven children of sharecroppers from Durham County, North Carolina, and became an activist at thirteen. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026

But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026

Generations of sharecroppers farmed the land, called the Franklin Farms megasite, until 2006, when the Franklin family sold it to the state of Louisiana, which then hoped to attract an auto plant. — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026