| 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. |
| The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
| There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers. |
| 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. |
| Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers. |
| Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers. |
