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	Sharecropping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sharecroppers worked a section of the plantation independently, usually growing cotton, tobacco, rice, and other cash crops and received a small portion of the parcel's output.
		Though the arrangement protected sharecroppers from the negative effects of a bad crop, many sharecroppers (both fl and white) were economically confined to serf-like conditions of poverty.
		Lacking the resources to market their crops independently, the sharecropper might be compensated in scrip redeemable only at the plantation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharecropper (1537 words)

	On "Sharecroppers"
		Many sharecroppers, white and fl, could not read; of those who could, many would not have been able to afford even the ten-cent cost of a copy (most sharecroppers did their "spending" on credit at stores that were owned by their landlords and that rarely, if ever, sold any of IP’s titles).
		By the late 1930s, the sharecropper was established in the national imagination as a contested figure of racial hybridity, class tension, and regional conflict, a figure whose homely appeals to America’s ideal of the family homestead competed with his stark display of America’s history of racial oppression and class conflict.
		In "Sharecropper," this rhetoric finds expression in the "well-armed riff-raff in the pack," who assault the hero, and in the "brushwood" that must be cleared away for the union’s "white oak" and "fl-oak" to prosper.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/brown/onshare.htm (2557 words)

	Sharecroppers.
		"Sharecropper," and sometimes just "Ocropper,¹" is not a happy term in the language and literature of East Texas or the South.
		But the sharecropper had to pay back the "credit" for his living expenses, and most of the time this required all he had earned.
		So the sharecropper had little choice but to remain on the place and do it all over again next year and try to produce more so he could get out of debt, but nearly always finding the same debt waiting at the end of the row.
	www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/SharecroppersAMD602.htm (493 words)

	Farmers Without Land: The Plight of White Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sharecroppers faced the most hopeless situation, as most became enmeshed in what was known as the crop-lien system.
		Other furnishing merchants kept accounts during the year of the debts incurred by their sharecroppers, and at the end of the year, at “settlement time,” the merchant would deduct these charges from the sharecropper’s share of the crop.
		Oftentimes, the debt exceeded the amount the sharecropper made from his share of the crop, and his only alternatives were to sign on for another year with the same landowner/merchant or move on to another farm.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature50/farmers.htm (1572 words)

	sharecrop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although former slaves and their descendants composed the majority of sharecroppers, the poor whites joined the fls in their struggles against the landowners by the end of the sharecropping era.
		Sharecropping by definition is the working of a piece of land by a tenant in exchange for a portion, usually half, of the crops or the revenue that they bring in for the landowner.
		In return for the work on the land, the landowners supply the tenants and their families with living accommodations, seeds and fertilizer, tools, and food that can be bought in a commissary, charging fairly high interest rates to the tenants.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~appalach/essaysS/sharecrop.htm (736 words)

	Narratives: Sharecropper, Elizabeth Catlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Elizabeth Catlett's intimate portrayal of an elderly fl female sharecropper is perhaps the most recognizable example of her commitment to the working woman, a theme that is reiterated throughout her print work.
		Sharecropper embodies the struggles and the dignities of fl womanhood and additionally demonstrates her interest in combining politics and art, an ethic that was furthered by her work at the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico, where many of her prints were produced.
		Throughout her career as an artist, Catlett has given expression to the plight of the working-class woman of color both in Mexico and the United States and has used her art as a political tool to articulate the struggles of oppressed peoples.
	www.artgallery.umd.edu /driskell/exhibition/sec4/catl_e_02.htm (117 words)

	Riley Martin ~ The Coming of Tan ~ Sharecroppers
		I think you the reader received a superior 7th grade education compared to a sharecropper kid lucky to be even sent to a school.
		Along with the physical poor treatment, the sharecroppers were cheated out of their money in multiple ways.
		Since the owners had control of the accounts of all of the sharecroppers, the books could be fixed in order to make the fifty percent that the workers earned, less than what it should be.
	www.thecomingoftan.com /riley/sharecropper/sharecropper.html (1337 words)

	inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘Response to Sharecropper metaphor’
		I like Tim Bray and Robb Beal—but I don’t like the sharecropper metaphor they use to describe developers who write apps for specific operating systems.
		However, to think of myself as a sharecropper would be to insult myself and what I do.
		Sharecropper implies a level of poverty, captivity, and hopelessness that’s not remotely applicable.
	inessential.com /?comments=1&postid=2577 (991 words)

	SHARECROPPER
		SHARECROPPER is a biography of my father, whose name is, Melton C. Braxton, deceased.
		M.C. Braxton was an extraordinary man, and he fought the Great Depression with such tenacity he raised eleven children while delivering half his crop to a landlord.
		Although poor economically, sharecroppers were not poor in spirit and did not complain as much in those days.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~PagePK~ca31dc34-28a5-46b8-9312-db9cf8178e3f~q3~pbbYIDMen2c=.aspx (323 words)

	Sharecropping - Quick Quiz
		A sharecropper was a former slave who worked a section of a former plantation.
		Sharecroppers had to give a percentage of their crop to the owner of the land.
		Sharecroppers had smaller houses than they had had as slaves.
	www.historyonthenet.com /Slave_Trade/sharecroppingquickquiz.htm (128 words)

	lilmiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1949, her records for the Gotham label met with some success playing on the 'down home' memories of many of the recent northern transfers from the Mississippi delta to Chicago, Detroit, and Gary now working in the steel mills and defense plants.
		In the late summer of 1952, Miss Sharecropper embarks on an extensive two month tour of the South with an array of R and B performers including Wini Brown, The Swallows, H-Bomb Ferguson, and Todd Rhodes and his Orchestra.
		During the tour Rhodes puts in a good word about Miss Sharecropper with his record company and soon she is recording for King Records as part of the Rhodes band.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/lilmiss.html (832 words)

	The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » A sharecropper's daughter
		Janice Rogers Brown, a sharecropper's daughter who became the first fl and most conservative justice on California's Supreme Court, is a model jurist for U.S. Senate Republicans fighting judicial filibusters.
		Further note to the media: it has NOTHING to do with whether she is qualified to serve a lifetime on the bench to deconstruct everything that the New Deal and liberals created FOR her, which gave her the boost to overcome her "chains" and have the OPPORTUNITY to acheive the success she has enjoyed.
		As the son of Mexican-American sharecroppers (and a life-long Democrat), I can tell you that my parents' years laboring away under the hot sun in the fields defined the rest of their lives.
	www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com /archives/4239.html (708 words)

	SHARECROPPER VS. SONSHIP FAITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As long as each of the sons does their jobs with diligence, there is absolutely no difference between them when it comes to their right to freely partake of all they desire from the table that has been provided for them by the Father.
		That table is reserved for "family." The sharecropper is working for profit, in a sense, and he will always have to eat the fruit of his own labor...
		Since the sharecropper is making his living by his sowing and reaping, he understandably becomes proud that he is doing a good job.
	www.garycarpenter.org /teach8.html (3240 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
		Sharecropper reveals Elizabeth Catlett’s lifelong concern for the oppressed and her assertion of the dignity of women.
		The print focuses on a female farm worker whose face, made rough and leathery by years of toil, is nonetheless determined and commanding.
		After the Civil War, many former slaves became sharecroppers, or farmers who worked on rented land and received an agreed share of the crop as payment.
	www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_AfAm/pages/AfAm_8.shtml (245 words)

	UWEC Geog188 Vogeler - Sharecropper Plantations
		Black families were assigned plots of land, where they built their cabins, and provided with a mule by their respective landlords, who continued to live in the "Big House." This practice of "40 acres and a mule" resulted in a dispersed rural settlement pattern of
		sharecropper cabins, such as this dogtrot of a fl tenant farmer,
		As late as 1936, about 60 percent of plantations were organized into sharecropper units.
	www.uwec.edu /Geography/Ivogeler/w188/planta3.htm (465 words)

	Abandoned shack brings reminder of a sharecropper's life in old South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HILLSBORO — Mack Vinson eased a shovel into a fresh mound of fire ants in front of the old sharecropper shack, churning them into chaos.
		Daffodils bloom in the spring outside this abandoned sharecropper's house on Mack Vinson's property in Lawrence County.
		Vinson stared at the shack, which he estimates is between 75 and 100 years old.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050331/shack.shtml (603 words)

	Slashdot \| Don't Be a Sharecropper
		it's analogous to a sharecropper using his own techniques to grow food, which are only known to him, and also having his own, smaller farm on the side, as well as having a few leads on new land where people are encouraging him to come over and develop.
		After the Civil War, sharecroppers got to do relatively interesting work that they liked to do and were in the top 10% of the salary range at the time.
		He throws around the word "sharecropper" as if there's a stigma attached to it, when in reality sharecropping is a way of life for some people, just the same as working an assembly line or in the mines is a way of life for others.
	karmak.org /archive/2003/08/slashdot-sharecroppers.html (6091 words)

	Amazon.com: sharecropper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son: Exoneration of the Brownsville Soldiers by John D. Weaver (Hardcover - Jun 1997)
		Sharecropper's son: The rest of the story, a sequel by Earnest L Best (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 2002)
		Sharecroppers of the Sertao: Economics and Dependence on a Brazilian Plantation by Allen W. Johnson (Hardcover - Jun 1980)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=sharecropper&page=1 (381 words)

	ongoing · The Web’s the Place
		What Robb actually said, in a conversation about Mac software outputs like Ranchero and Watson and his own Spring, was that building for the Apple OS feels like being a sharecropper.
		But a little thought shows that it’s better not to be a customer on a sharecropper’s platform.
		When something good and new comes along, the chances are less that it’ll be scooped and monopolized by the landlord, and greater that it’ll develop into a healthy ecosystem.
	www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace (1140 words)

	CNN.com - Jury convicts 72-year-old man in 1966 slaying of black sharecropper - Feb. 28, 2003
		A reputed Klansman goes on trial for a 1966 slaying allegedly meant to lure Martin Luther King Jr.
		A federal jury convicted a 72-year-old man Friday in the 1966 slaying of a fl sharecropper, a crime prosecutors say was staged to lure Martin Luther King Jr.
		Reputed Klansman Ernest Avants, a stroke survivor, remained seated in his wheelchair as the verdict was read.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/02/28/avants.trial.ap/index.html (760 words)

	A Sharecropper's Society?
		Every year Americans sell or mortgage a slice of their productive assets to foreigners, with the result that income from those assets must flow abroad in the future.
		They argue that purchases of U.S. equities and bonds are a vote of confidence in our economy, glossing over the fact that we're signing up to pay dividends and interest to foreigners.
		But the vision of the United States as a sharecropper's society remains distressingly plausible.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR2005080600862.html (616 words)

	If Brown should be confirmed because she is the daughter of a sharecropper, then..... - Sean Hannity Discussion
		If Brown should be confirmed because she is the daughter of a sharecropper, then.....
		Re: If Brown should be confirmed because she is the daughter of a sharecropper, then.....
		Or with Ted Kennedy who is the son of Hilter's personal representative in the U.S. Politics is not a bad profession.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?p=196155 (788 words)

	Hadley Castille
		As an aside, Hadley explained that his father got the name Hadley from the name of the producer of some silent movie that his father saw while in Port Arthur, Texas.
		In 1948, he moved to a spread owned by an old German at Notleyville, land that, with a good pair of mules, provided a better living.
		His mother, whose first husband, Hadley's uncle, had died, was a widow, so her second marriage, according to custom, was an occasion for a charivari.
	www.lsue.edu /acadgate/music/castille2.htm (484 words)

	A Photo Dossier on Sharecropping
		The man says that the agent is changed so often that no one ever takes any interest in the condition of the land or the buildings.
		They were legally evicted the week of January 12, 1936, the plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union they were engaging in a conspiracy to retain their homes; this contention granted by the court, the eviction, though at the point of a gun, was quite legal.
		The pictures were taken just after the evictions before they were moved into the tent colony they later enjoyed.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/brown/photos.htm (188 words)

	Once a Sharecropper's Daughter, Always a Sharecropper's Daughter - Wonkette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once a Sharecropper's Daughter, Always a Sharecropper's Daughter
		I was on the first cup of coffee and we were talking about this incredible sight yesterday of Barbara Boxer lecturing Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
		Here's this white, wealthy, elitist liberal from San Francisco -- I think she's actually from Marin -- lecturing a fl daughter of sharecroppers who has risen on her own to become a member of the California Supreme Court, Janice Rogers Brown.
	www.wonkette.com /politics/media/once-a-sharecroppers-daughter-always-a-sharecroppers-daughter-104438.php (240 words)

	The Sharecropper Family and Baptism
		THE SHARECROPPER; FAMILY AND BAPTISM It all happened in the Southeastern United States; one of the areas in the States hit hardest by the Great Depression.
		And it was about feeding a family at a time (to use an old Southern expression) "They didn't have a pot to pee in." That pretty well sums up the Sharecropper years for Earnest and Mena Bentley.
		And, while Earnest struggled to feed and care for his family, he was also struggling with his own spirituality.
	www.digibuy.com /cgi-bin/product.html?96747657587 (132 words)

	1301 Theme 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What was provided to the sharecropper to cover for cotton seeds and roots for cultivation?
		What did the sharecropper have to do to the cotton on a regular basis between planting and harvesting?
		What the planter did to the sharecropper "by adding a lot of imaginary equipment repairs to the expense side of the settle statement"?
	www.accd.edu /pac/history/rhines/quiz4_02.htm (808 words)

	USATODAY.com - Man is convicted in sharecropper slaying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		USATODAY.com - Man is convicted in sharecropper slaying
		(AP) — A federal jury convicted a 72-year-old man Friday in the 1966 slaying of a fl sharecropper, a crime prosecutors say was staged to lure Martin Luther King Jr.
		Ernest Avants could be sentenced to death for the 1966 murder.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-02-28-mlk-bait-slaying_x.htm (720 words)

	Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Create Award Winning Booklists from our Award Winners Database of over ...
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		Book Brief: A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.
	www.literatureplace.com /awards/book.asp?BookID=2174 (214 words)

	Morris Museum of Art: Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I know this because the ____________________ is bigger than the ______________________.
		I know this man is a sharecropper because ___________________________________.
		From what I know about the lives of sharecroppers during this time period, I think the life of this sharecropper was ___________________________________________________________.
	www.themorris.org /education/teacher/share_wksht.html (130 words)

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