Sharecropper
noun
A farmer who cultivates land owned by someone else and gives a part of their crops as rent.
Many sharecroppers lived in the American South following the end of slavery.
Often appears as...
- sharecropper's cabin
- sharecropper system
Usage tips
Historical
noun
A farmer who cultivates land owned by someone else and gives a part of their crops as rent.
Many sharecroppers lived in the American South following the end of slavery.
Often appears as...
- sharecropper's cabin
- sharecropper system
Usage tips
Historical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understand that 'sharecropper' often refers to a historical period, especially post-slavery in the U.S.
Sharecroppers emerged as a new class of farmers after the Civil War.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Hardship
The term 'sharecropper' can imply economic struggle due to unfair sharecropping contracts.
Despite his hard work, the sharecropper could barely make ends meet.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
In American culture, 'sharecropper' may evoke images of rural life and inequality.
Songs from that era depict the difficult lives of sharecroppers.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understand that 'sharecropper' often refers to a historical period, especially post-slavery in the U.S.
Sharecroppers emerged as a new class of farmers after the Civil War.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Hardship
The term 'sharecropper' can imply economic struggle due to unfair sharecropping contracts.
Despite his hard work, the sharecropper could barely make ends meet.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
In American culture, 'sharecropper' may evoke images of rural life and inequality.
Songs from that era depict the difficult lives of sharecroppers.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understand that 'sharecropper' often refers to a historical period, especially post-slavery in the U.S.
Sharecroppers emerged as a new class of farmers after the Civil War.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Hardship
The term 'sharecropper' can imply economic struggle due to unfair sharecropping contracts.
Despite his hard work, the sharecropper could barely make ends meet.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
In American culture, 'sharecropper' may evoke images of rural life and inequality.
Songs from that era depict the difficult lives of sharecroppers.
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Video examples
The power to think ahead...
He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later. But he also knew it needed to be lucrative for them in the short run.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
police problem to make Los Angeles a model city for the nation Thomas Bradley was sworn in today as mayor of Los Angeles the largest city in this country ever to have a black mayor Bradley is a former policeman and the son of a Texas sharecropper tonight it's not just a
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How to deconstruct...
for organizing local sharecroppers." "Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl." "Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob." We need to change the action,
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The Great Migration and...
many of whom were not even being paid for their hard work. Many of them were working for the right to live on the land that they were farming. They were sharecroppers and not even being paid. So they were ripe for recruitment. But it turned out
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Jake Barton: The museum...
Charley Williams, a poor sharecropper, wouldn't ordinarily be the subject of a big interview, but Charley had actually been a slave until he was 22 years old. And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels
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The trauma of systematic...
Walking through pain is what we have always done. My mom, she's in the middle right there, my mom desegregated her high school in 1955. Her mom walked down the steps of an abandoned school bus where she raised 11 kids as a sharecropper.
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Re-examining the remix -...
ownership the respect we should give to the Creator the remixer the owner the property owner the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff and not a generation of sharecroppers now I think there are lessons we should learn
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How to reduce the wealth...
So Silas, at the end of the Civil War, had no wealth. He was free but had no wealth. He became a sharecropper. My great-grandfather Silas was born a number of years after the end of slavery, and he was drafted to serve in World War I
Video examples
The "crime" of living...
for organizing local sharecroppers. Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl. Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob.
Video examples
Lawrence Lessig:...
a respect for ownership, the respect we should give the creator, the remixer, the owner, the property owner, the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff, and not a generation of sharecroppers.
Video examples
The power to think ahead...
He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later. But he also knew it needed to be lucrative for them in the short run.
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
police problem to make Los Angeles a model city for the nation Thomas Bradley was sworn in today as mayor of Los Angeles the largest city in this country ever to have a black mayor Bradley is a former policeman and the son of a Texas sharecropper tonight it's not just a
Video examples
How to deconstruct...
for organizing local sharecroppers." "Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl." "Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob." We need to change the action,
Video examples
The Great Migration and...
many of whom were not even being paid for their hard work. Many of them were working for the right to live on the land that they were farming. They were sharecroppers and not even being paid. So they were ripe for recruitment. But it turned out
Video examples
Jake Barton: The museum...
Charley Williams, a poor sharecropper, wouldn't ordinarily be the subject of a big interview, but Charley had actually been a slave until he was 22 years old. And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels
Video examples
The trauma of systematic...
Walking through pain is what we have always done. My mom, she's in the middle right there, my mom desegregated her high school in 1955. Her mom walked down the steps of an abandoned school bus where she raised 11 kids as a sharecropper.
Video examples
Re-examining the remix -...
ownership the respect we should give to the Creator the remixer the owner the property owner the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff and not a generation of sharecroppers now I think there are lessons we should learn
Video examples
How to reduce the wealth...
So Silas, at the end of the Civil War, had no wealth. He was free but had no wealth. He became a sharecropper. My great-grandfather Silas was born a number of years after the end of slavery, and he was drafted to serve in World War I
Video examples
The "crime" of living...
for organizing local sharecroppers. Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl. Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob.
Video examples
Lawrence Lessig:...
a respect for ownership, the respect we should give the creator, the remixer, the owner, the property owner, the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff, and not a generation of sharecroppers.
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Quote examples
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
American Activist
In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.
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Alice Walker
American Author
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.
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A'Lelia Bundles
American Journalist
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.
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Carrie Mae Weems
American Photographer
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
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Kenneth Frazier
American Businessman
My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
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Ernest Gaines
American Writer
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
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Afeni Shakur
American Activist
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Buck Owens
American Musician
We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
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Cordae
American Musician
My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.
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John Lewis
American Politician
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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Robert Kennedy, Jr.
American Activist
In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.
Quote examples
Alice Walker
American Author
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.
Quote examples
A'Lelia Bundles
American Journalist
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.
Quote examples
Carrie Mae Weems
American Photographer
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
Quote examples
Kenneth Frazier
American Businessman
My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
Quote examples
Ernest Gaines
American Writer
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Quote examples
Afeni Shakur
American Activist
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
Quote examples
Buck Owens
American Musician
We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
Quote examples
Cordae
American Musician
My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.
Quote examples
John Lewis
American Politician
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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