| 11. | Many became sharecroppers, their economic status little changed by emancipation.
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| 12. | After emancipation many freed slaves stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers.
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| 13. | Robinson had been a sharecropper, a soldier and a boxer.
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| 14. | Foreclosure reduced them to the status of sharecroppers or landless laborers.
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| 15. | Two decades later, the majority of African Americans were sharecroppers.
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| 16. | But their holdings are extremely small, and many are sharecroppers.
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| 17. | However, female sharecroppers are rarely counted separately from their husbands.
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| 18. | To sharecroppers fleeing the South, Chicago looked like the promised land.
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| 19. | Her parents, the late Isaac and Fannie Stubblefield, were sharecroppers.
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| 20. | He was the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves.
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