tenant farmer

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Recent Examples of tenant farmer These parcels were given to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and were considered sacred to the generations who had owned them since. Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2025 The new draft act has its roots in the 1950s, when 30 to 40 percent of India’s farmland was worked by tenant farmers. Tim Hanstad, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2016 Carter worked the land throughout the Great Depression, but it was owned by the elder Carter, who employed the surrounding Black tenant farmers in the era of Jim Crow segregation. Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025 The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers. Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tenant farmer

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“Tenant farmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenant%20farmer. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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