tenant farmer

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Recent Examples on the Web His father, a local tenant farmer, was among those executed in vengeance. Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 5 June 2024 That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land. Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020 Large tracts such as Brown’s Inheritance were often inhabited by tenant farmers who worked the land for owners who lived elsewhere. Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024 New York passed the first anti-mask law in 1845 in response to a tenant farmer rebellion that turned violent. Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 May 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 4 Nov. 2024.

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