| As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land. |
| And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields. |
| Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers. |
| His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers. |
| There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers. |
| Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census. |
