| Victor sharecropped tobacco, a reliable cash crop, and in that first harvest season after Vicky Gene was born Imogene set the baby on the floor of the stripping room and helped pull the tobacco leaves from the stalks. |
| Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census. |
| The narrative pans across generations of poverty — the women's grandparents sharecropped cotton — while, in the present, results vary. |
| Grandparents in the Jim Crow South sharecropped for white overseers but also owned small garden plots. |
