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sharecropping

 

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Sharecropping:

Noun:

1. a system of agriculture in which a tenant farmer cultivates a plot of land and pays the landowner a share of the crops produced, typically as rent.

Sample Sentence:

"In the post-Civil War South, many freed slaves were forced into sharecropping, leaving them trapped in a cycle of poverty."


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