How To Use tenant farmer In A Sentence
- Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
- The five tenant farmers on the estate will continue working the land but ways are being sought to help those in arable farming to convert to grazing to help maintain the appearance of the land as it once was.
- He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street
- There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers.
- Millions of tenant farmers in the developing world have little incentive to invest in land improvements, rotate crops or improve soil fertility.
- In exchange for this, the owner would get a large share of the crop raised by the tenant farmer. This system, called share-cropping, spread through the South.
- For example, in 1941, the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression.
- Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.
- The son of a tenant farmer in western New York, he gained a minimal education before he was apprenticed as a clothier.
- Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn.
