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sharecropping

Farming someone else's land, where the farmer gives the landowner a proportion of the crop instead of money. This system of rent payment was common in the USA, especially the South, until after World War II. It is still common in parts of the developing world; for example, in India. Often the farmer is left with such a small share of the crop that he or she is doomed to poverty.



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One of 11 children, born to poor Arkansas share croppers, Campbell was proud of his Scottish roots, loved golf and even mastered the bagpipes.
Dale Rosen, "The Alabama Share Croppers Union," March 1969, 89, file 2A, reel 13, Johnson Papers.
 
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