0 a farmer who rents land and who gives part of his or her crop as rent, especially in the past
1 a member of a low social class of farm workers who receive a share of the value of the crop and who must pay the farm owner for seed, tools, food, and a place to live
2 a farmer who rents land and who gives part of his or her crop as rent to the land owner:
In general, the region lacked a significant number of white small farmers, even of tenants and sharecroppers.
This incentive will be smaller for a sharecropper, who would get only a half of the additional output, than for a fixed-rent tenant.
The old generation, born between 1915 and 1920, were mostly tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or plantation workers.
The landlord had to lease 210 hectares of his 318 hectares to sixty former sharecroppers under a fixed rent arrangement.
With inheritance, the ownerships of these landowners had grown too small to be economical, forcing them to migrate and rent the land to sharecroppers.
As mentioned, the two capitalist farms were seized and parceled out among former sharecroppers, farmworkers, and its two landowners.
Most households were sharecroppers at the same level in the village's social hierarchy and lacking any appreciable internal socio-economic differentiation.
The legal discourse from the classical period understood that the tenant/sharecropper/labourer was a necessary part of the functioning of the agrarian regime.
