Sentences with phrase «sharecropper tenants»
The five of them end up in a shack with no running water or electricity, cut off from town by a wooden bridge that floods when it rains, not far from their black sharecropper tenants, Florence and Hap Jackson (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan).
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The urban poor, many of whom are children of tenants and sharecroppers forced off the land by mechanization, should be offered government assistance to purchase land and training to learn how to work it.
The other story is about a householder who moves away but rents his vineyard to tenants — sharecroppers who are supposed to share the produce with him.
Tens of thousands of people continue to live as tenant farmers or sharecroppers in conditions little better than those once found in medieval Europe.
«Hap» (Rob Morgan) is the father and head of the household, proud to be a tenant and not a sharecropper.