| 31. | While there, his father, a former sharecropper, abandoned them.
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| 32. | Coleman was born to a family of sharecroppers in Gainesville, Alabama.
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| 33. | The sharecroppers were free to leave but most did not.
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| 34. | However, the majority are mainly sharecroppers and agricultural labourers.
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| 35. | Landless sharecroppers, laborers, tenants, and nomads had next priority.
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| 36. | The remaining 49 families were either employed as farm workers or sharecroppers.
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| 37. | As a result, the planters would evict the sharecroppers.
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| 38. | Up until the 1950s, sharecroppers lived on the plantation.
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| 39. | Sharecropper families continued to maintain and farm the island during this period.
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| 40. | Were they sharecroppers, or clergy, heirs, and minor nobility?
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