Sentences with phrase «sharecropping life»
The rules and demands of sharecropping life left little time for play, and work quickly overshadowed school.
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Steve Martin (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Lonely Guy) stars as Navin Johnson, a white man - child living as the adopted son of a poor black Mississippi sharecropping family, and though he doesn't quite know it, his «whiteness», in both skin color and interests, has definitely made him the «black sheep» of the family.
Life was so desperately hard for sharecropping families in the area that such an arrangement may have been possible.
In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy.