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Japanese farmers had been working in the San Joaquin Delta since the start of the twentieth century, serving as tenant farmers for white landlords after restrictions on Chinese immigrants kicked in.
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H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
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
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H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
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
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“Tenant farmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenant%20farmer. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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