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Many rural communities in the state were still virtually a slavery-like system, where Black families rented or sharecropped land and bought their food from the same White landowners for whom they worked -- and at the end of the year, found they owed the owners money.
Marian Wright Edelman: Remembering Sargent Shriver Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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Many rural communities in the state were still virtually a slavery-like system, where Black families rented or sharecropped land and bought their food from the same White landowners for whom they worked -- and at the end of the year, found they owed the owners money.
Marian Wright Edelman: Remembering Sargent Shriver Marian Wright Edelman 2011
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Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from PCB production.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from PCB production.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Alma and Ab moved into a small tenant house, sharecropped to pay the rent, and set about starting a family—with heartbreaking consequences.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Alma and Ab moved into a small tenant house, sharecropped to pay the rent, and set about starting a family—with heartbreaking consequences.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Many of us grew up in an era before the young adult section -- when the kids 'section in the store was just picture books and some 400-volume sharecropped series like Sweet Valley High.
Boing Boing 2008
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Alma and Ab moved into a small tenant house, sharecropped to pay the rent, and set about starting a family—with heartbreaking consequences.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Alma and Ab moved into a small tenant house, sharecropped to pay the rent, and set about starting a family—with heartbreaking consequences.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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The family lived on about eight acres in St. Martin Parish in south-central Louisiana and sharecropped a couple hundred acres of surrounding sugar cane fields.
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