Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen 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. |
There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers. |
The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers. |
He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers. |
His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers. |