sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈsher-ˌkrä-pər 
: a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges
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Born Jimmy Lee Swaggart in Ferriday, Louisiana, on March 15, 1935, Swaggart was the son of sharecroppers and cousin to both future rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and future country music star Mickey Gilley.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 July 2025
Miles Caton plays their young cousin Sammie, a sharecropper and the pastor’s son, who has a deep connection to music.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
Its most beautiful and bracing imagery is that of cotton fields plumbed by sharecroppers, endless skies and dusty roads, the verdant expanse of a land that has witnessed so much sorrow.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
This most recent suite was inspired by a photo of a meteorite in an antique geology textbook, whose caption described its near-collision with an unnamed sharecropper in nineteen-twenties Mississippi.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 July 2025
Miles Caton plays their young cousin Sammie, a sharecropper and the pastor’s son, who has a deep connection to music.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
Its most beautiful and bracing imagery is that of cotton fields plumbed by sharecroppers, endless skies and dusty roads, the verdant expanse of a land that has witnessed so much sorrow.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
This most recent suite was inspired by a photo of a meteorite in an antique geology textbook, whose caption described its near-collision with an unnamed sharecropper in nineteen-twenties Mississippi.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sharecropper. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈshe(ə)r-ˌkräp-ər
ˈsha(ə)r-
: a farmer who works land for the owner in return for a share of the value of the crop
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