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To farm as a tenant who pays as rent a portion of what is grown.

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  • Okay, uh, what about the brothers, did they stay around here and farm or sharecrop or what did they do?
  • What you got tired of, or your children, your sister and brother got too old, for your parents to sharecrop or what happened?
  • John may have been poor in "Paper of Record" hagiography, but he was not poor relative to the real, sharecrop, jobless and hardscrabble poverty that existed then and now.
  • In the information age, "property" is the exclusive preserve of giant companies that can afford to register copyrights and sue to defend them, while the rest of us get to...
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