| Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers. |
| He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers. |
| 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. |
| The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers. |
| The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
