A sharecropper is a person who works on someone else's land and is given a share of the crops they produce as payment instead of money. Full definition
Born to a family of sharecroppers in Plainview, Ga., after serving in the Korean War, Andrews graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and headed for New York where he practiced his craft on the Lower East Side. (artsobserver.com)
Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow South. (mrqe.com)
Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen... (empireonline.com)