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sharecropping
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share·crop  (shârkrp)
v. share·cropped, share·crop·ping, share·crops
v.intr.
To work as a sharecropper.
v.tr.
To work (land) or grow (crops) as a sharecropper.
Translations
sharecropping [ˈʃɛəˌkrɒpɪŋ] N (esp US) → aparcería f


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Christopher plays Pa Joad, the head of a family of Oklahoma share-croppers in the 1930s, who lose everything when their farm is repossessed after a drought.
Was a free slave truly free as a share-cropper or did this make it cheaper to run the land?
THE blues man was the son of a share-cropper and he worked on the chain gangs and he picked cotton in faded denim dungarees, his fingers and his nails hard, as his voice and his guitar expressed the passion of his people in the Mississippi delta.
 
 
 
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