| But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest, and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off. |
| 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. |
| The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers. |
| Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers. |
| The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
