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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecrop
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They’ll be forced to farm their own food, support and maintain their homesteads, and live together in one-room cabins without running water, electricity, or caffeine (this is the cruelest part).—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
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Coffee beans need to grow in a warm, tropical climate, making Hawaii and Puerto Rico the only suitable places in the United States to farm the crop.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
10 July 2025
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Both cardboard and newspaper will break down during the growing season and can be tilled under with mulch before the next planting season.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
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Some pointed to the exceptionally dry conditions in central Illinois this spring even as the fields had been recently tilled.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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“Sharecrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecrop. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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