My parents were shre croppers until 1965 in Louisiana. It was hard life. But it made my adult life easier. Cause I was raised at the end of that cotton row. Learned how to walk holding onto a cotton sak. Picking cotton. You learnt to never say can't and to never quit. I'm 72 and am very grateful for my upbringing. Thank you Momma and Daddy and God
THANK you ! I love these stories... ❤ Because, of people like this, I can live my spoiled life... I have tried to do hard work, loving others and sharing, caring for all children and animals... But, nothing I do can top those that ( blazed the trail ) before me... I love and admire you... You are some of the gifts from OUR GOD !!! 😘😘😘
I remember them hard times very well , it was hard work but it was some of the best memories of my life! Thank-you for sharing this program, GOD BLESS 🙏🏽✝️🙏🏼
My Daddy was a sharecropper i remember just like it was yesterday im 70 now and in a way those were good old days hard work but it was worth it family was family then
My family grew baccer (tobacco) in E TN and I worked in the field with my parents as a young child. I worked in the hayfield from 6 years old until I got a public job in a factory. Thankful for my upbringing it instilled a strong work ethic that still exists today
Well, this is the defining documentary on the subject of sharecropping. This is the work that a Ken Burns would have hoped to do to tell the story that should be appreciated. Everything said was true because both sides of my family were deeply involved in it as landowners for the nearly 100 years that sharecropping existed. My father always said that slavery did not end in Georgia until sharecropping was outlawed in the 1950s. Good work!
The practice ended in Georgia in the 50s? That's surprising because it was still going on in Mississippi in the early 1970s. According to Nicholas Lemann, there were at the time still Black Sharecroppings who'd never used currency because of the barter system. We still have much to learn about this era, which looks doubtful given the distaste of right-wing legislators to include slavery and Jim Crow in the primary and secondary public education curriculum.
@@delbertphillips5124 As the descendant of slaveowners on all four sides of the family and tenant and sharecropper landlords on three sides, I can say my family was in on it all from the early 1800s through the 1950's. Slavery was the most despicable practice that poisoned the United States from 1619 to today. Sharecropping lives today as the backbone of the American economy: credit-based, debt-driven and you NEVER SEE ANY MONEY! Most live in someone else's house ( apartments or rental), drive vehicles actually owned (title) by the bank, and really own little more than the clothes on their back ( purchased with a credit card). They are one paycheck away from disaster ( crop failure) and will NEVER GET OUT OF DEBT. The more things change the more they stay the same. Change is an illusion used to distract and placate the masses.
@@delbertphillips5124 it was the same in NC. My dad share cropped until 1971. Through FHA which became USDA he was able to purchase his own farm and build a home. Sharecropping was a hard life. You’d work the whole cropping season and barely have enough to pay for seed, fertilizer, fuel and the rent on the house.
It's great that the younger generation is interested in this subject matter. I've searched extensively for academic work on the sharecropping era, and there isn't a great deal. One of the best works I've read on this period is by Nicholas Lemann, who links sharecropping in the Mississippi delta to the Great Migration. There is much psychological baggage carried by Black sharecroppings because of the level of explanation they suffered at the hands of white land owners, Mr. Charlie, if you will. This explanation was mainly due to the lack of literacy because of poor schooling. Children were taken out of school to work in the fields because the families tried their level best to pay off the debt, which, of course, as the video covers, they never could. Great work, and I'd encourage these young people to maintain your research notes just in case any you one day would like to do a dissertation on an aspect of the subject matter.
My grandfather and gradmother were white and were sharecroppers. Also my great grandfather was a sharecroppers. My grandfater sharecropped till his death. From his share he hired the blacks, paid for everything. He raised tobacco and cotton. He plowed the fields with a mule. He died in 1959. My grandmother worked puttting up tobacco in the pack house. I know as when i was 7 or 8 i worked beside her. All their 5 sons worked the farm till they joined the military. Mullins SC was a huge hub for tobacco.
When I was station in the US Army in Fort Bragg nc in 1976 I had a girlfriend name Clara Gilchrist who took me to her home in Cameron NC to meet her family who was all tobacco sharecroppers. her dad gave me a tour. of his farm and explain everything about tobacco farming I did not realize how deep this was at that time thing was for black farmers. i still think about that to this very day. I am from Toledo Ohio and I learn so much from her dad about life in the south.
When I was born, my parents were ShareCroppers. They owned their own mules and farming equipment. The landowner got ⅓rd of the cotton and ¼th of the corn. They borrowed money from the bank to buy seed and fertilizer. Before my parents accrued mules and farm implements they used the landowners mules and equipment. The landowner bought the seed and fertilizer. When the landowner furnished the mules and equipment, the Sharecropper only got a small part of the crops. My dad asked to borrow the mules to turn a plot for a garden, but the landowner refused; so, he tilled the garden by hand. Picking cotton was hard work, but I enjoyed the fellowship with everyone working in the fields. My first memory of picking cotton was in 1947. I was 5 years old and picked 48 pounds of cotton the first day. I knew a few people that could pick 500 pounds in a day, but I was never able to pick that much. I very much enjoyed your program but there were some errors recorded. Example: You couldn’t put 500 pounds of cotton in a 9 foot pick sack and it took about 1250 to 1400 pounds of cotton to make a bale. After genning, a bale would weigh around 500 pounds. The seed weighted move that the cotton.
Some of this is true. Maybe in North Carolina. But not all is true about this in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. My Grandmother and Grandpaw was share choppers in Mississippi. One of the biggest plantations in Mississippi known as Rabbit Ridge. My Grandpaw, my Uncles and Aunt did all the work, furnished the mules and equipment. They also payed for all the seed, fertilizer and poison. Not to mention supporting the family. And my family is Irish and German. This I can prove from older people in the family and I am 71 years young.
My father's family owned the land and had sharecroppers . They farmed cotton in Louisiana. My dad worked in the field with them along with the rest of his family
@backtoafrika I totally agree. History has been rewritten to fit some people likes. I totally agree and feel deeply sorryed for the way share croppers was treated. My family was blessed to be able to make it share cropping. I guess that's why they lost there land. Not being in debt with the land owner.
There were white sharecroppers when there were plantations. They didn’t start after the civil war. A white sharecropper’s family, during the slavery time was called poor white trash and were considered lower than slaves. My father and grandfather were sharecroppers, my daddy finally quit when my mama got pregnant and he couldn’t pay the doctor bill. We did pick cotton while daddy was driving a concrete truck or working in a factory. I was picking cotton before I started school.
@@mama13bugs even after the civil war they were called white trash. My mom's family were sharecroppers in New Mexico. They worked on a pinto bean farm in the 20s and 30s. She said they were called white trash
The way I understand it .when I was in the Carolinas, the tobacco was for cigarettes and the tobacco in Lancaster] PA. Was used for the outside roll to roll cigars
My maternal grandmother picked cotton as late as 1956 in Copiah County MS with her maternal grandfather which was a share cropper at the time. I’m actually looking for the exact location of this farm he lived on.
This is such a sad story. I was raised on a farm in Oklahoma . We were poor, in a dictionary look up thr word poor and you would see Smith. I was maybe6-7 when I started working on a tractor!
👍👍I really really appreciate this documentary, it 💯% historical to me listening at their stories, I’ve heard stories like this growing up as a young child and most of them are exactly like this , I was truly blessed with this documentary, thank you and keep up the great works that GOD is allowing you to do 👆✨❤️💯👆
Loved how the Flue cured tobacco was picked off the stalk . Spent many years fighting Burley tobacco , cutting the whole stalk , speared on a stick , five to seven stalks to the stick . Handed up man to man sometimes five or more rails high . Thought there must be an easier way . I was wrong .
My mother was raised in a sharecroppers family . She told a story about a hog killing feast at the land owners mansion . She said her uncle got up and asked the other sharecroppers gathered in a middle room of the mansion . The black folks are eating in the kitchen , the white folks in the dining room , then what the hell are we ? Most of those present left Clark county Kentucky and moved to Ohio . Not much of a story , but I thought i`d share it .
i am 67 and i remember the share croppers and they were all white,in this county and none were blacks,please dont make it look like the blacks were mistreated,
Yes, my daddy was a sharecropper, and you want to work for free that's what you become a sharecropper. My my older sister's experience the fun at being because between my daddy's Shell shocked from the war and trying to provide for evidently an ever-growing family could not afford or feed. I was adopted out at 9 months so I cannot say what would be like but my sister has memories that she does not want to remember those days. She did tell me this, that she took old potatoes and buried them on a hillside she said people laugh but I think when harvest Time came they had some potatoes. And oh by the way according to the DNA ,we are Scotch, English Scandinavian, so evidently when poor hits it hits everyone no matter what culture they come it's a good thing you know how to dig the Earth and put fertilizer why any private well Sonny area you can grow you some food with or without the permission of the landowner.😊
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I remember that my grandma made me some step in out of flower sacks one day i fell at school and the kids laughed and said i seen self rising on your butt and i went home crying
I remember my mama telling me that she wore panties made from flour sacks that her mother made for her and my aunt had to wear them too and they would have rags from flour sacks for their time of the month when they got older
"...oh when those cotton balls got rotten, you didn't pick very much cotton...in those old cotton fields back home. It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarcana...in those old cotton fields back home...."
Aren't sharecroppers no different than regular farmers? Just different in what was grown. My great grandpa on my dad's side farmed AND ran a tiling business, and another great grandpa farmed and ran a threshing machine. They did it by borrowing some money, or making a private contract with a retiring farmer. They produced dairy, hogs, and cattle, with corn, soybeans, oats, and hay(back when it was in bales, not a 2 ton round bale). Same hard work and farmers across this nation did it.
Sharecropping is a lot more work and more beneficial than working at McDonald's or Walmart but people like money so they are not going to work doing sharecropping are they going to do is complain about wages and prices if it was me and I was able to work I would rather sharecrop then working in a factory any day because it would be more beneficial in the long run I'm not scared of hard work and this younger generation needs to be forced to go back to doing hard work and stop becoming criminals
I'm a 60 year old man. My grandparents shared the horrors of living in the South. There is a God, and although it is a hard journey even in modern society, the last will be first and the first shall be last. Through it all, those people still have no shame in the acute exploitation, and rape in all manners of what they did. The Japanese get reparations and even claim minorityship in education, yet we are looked down upon. Sadly, our young people will not compete like others for a quality education...... shame ....shame ...shameful.
Blacks are given jobs now over more qualified races. Blacks in 1968 in SC started attending school with whites. Fact so no one since then has an excuse but claim to be victims. It is modern day blacks or whomever make their own decision on education.
At the beginning of this One would assume that only Black people were Share croppers ‘ White people were Share Croppers also . Very racially divisive content . Divide And Conquer
They should be more sharecropping done what the reason people do not share crop is because they are too stupid to do it so since they want to complain about wages and the prices of everything when you do the math it adds up to more than what people make minimum wage if they are sharecropping sharecropping is more beneficial
In West TN all schools let out for cotton picking. My father was a sharecropper and we were white. This is somewhat incorrect and bothers me as it doesn't tell that part of this history.
Sorry but this woman is not telling it like it really was. As illustrated in this video poor white folks did work the fields. I say this because I remember as little white boy working along side blacks.
My parents were shre croppers until 1965 in Louisiana. It was hard life. But it made my adult life easier. Cause I was raised at the end of that cotton row. Learned how to walk holding onto a cotton sak. Picking cotton. You learnt to never say can't and to never quit. I'm 72 and am very grateful for my upbringing. Thank you Momma and Daddy and God
THANK you ! I love these stories... ❤ Because, of people like this, I can live my spoiled life... I have tried to do hard work, loving others and sharing, caring for all children and animals... But, nothing I do can top those that ( blazed the trail ) before me... I love and admire you... You are some of the gifts from OUR GOD !!! 😘😘😘
U must be white glorifying slavery
Beautifully said. God's truth. Keep spreading it!!
I remember them hard times very well , it was hard work but it was some of the best memories of my life! Thank-you for sharing this program, GOD BLESS 🙏🏽✝️🙏🏼
Your work is a treasure. Thank you.
Great job kids and thanks to the folks that shared their lives with us. Amen
My Daddy was a sharecropper i remember just like it was yesterday im 70 now and in a way those were good old days hard work but it was worth it family was family then
My family grew baccer (tobacco) in E TN and I worked in the field with my parents as a young child. I worked in the hayfield from 6 years old until I got a public job in a factory. Thankful for my upbringing it instilled a strong work ethic that still exists today
how old are you?
Well, this is the defining documentary on the subject of sharecropping. This is the work that a Ken Burns would have hoped to do to tell the story that should be appreciated. Everything said was true because both sides of my family were deeply involved in it as landowners for the nearly 100 years that sharecropping existed. My father always said that slavery did not end in Georgia until sharecropping was outlawed in the 1950s. Good work!
The practice ended in Georgia in the 50s? That's surprising because it was still going on in Mississippi in the early 1970s. According to Nicholas Lemann, there were at the time still Black Sharecroppings who'd never used currency because of the barter system. We still have much to learn about this era, which looks doubtful given the distaste of right-wing legislators to include slavery and Jim Crow in the primary and secondary public education curriculum.
@@delbertphillips5124 As the descendant of slaveowners on all four sides of the family and tenant and sharecropper landlords on three sides, I can say my family was in on it all from the early 1800s through the 1950's. Slavery was the most despicable practice that poisoned the United States from 1619 to today. Sharecropping lives today as the backbone of the American economy: credit-based, debt-driven and you NEVER SEE ANY MONEY! Most live in someone else's house ( apartments or rental), drive vehicles actually owned (title) by the bank, and really own little more than the clothes on their back ( purchased with a credit card). They are one paycheck away from disaster ( crop failure) and will NEVER GET OUT OF DEBT. The more things change the more they stay the same. Change is an illusion used to distract and placate the masses.
What’s Ken Burns got to do with sharecroppers?
@@delbertphillips5124 it was the same in NC. My dad share cropped until 1971. Through FHA which became USDA he was able to purchase his own farm and build a home. Sharecropping was a hard life. You’d work the whole cropping season and barely have enough to pay for seed, fertilizer, fuel and the rent on the house.
It's great that the younger generation is interested in this subject matter. I've searched extensively for academic work on the sharecropping era, and there isn't a great deal. One of the best works I've read on this period is by Nicholas Lemann, who links sharecropping in the Mississippi delta to the Great Migration. There is much psychological baggage carried by Black sharecroppings because of the level of explanation they suffered at the hands of white land owners, Mr. Charlie, if you will. This explanation was mainly due to the lack of literacy because of poor schooling. Children were taken out of school to work in the fields because the families tried their level best to pay off the debt, which, of course, as the video covers, they never could. Great work, and I'd encourage these young people to maintain your research notes just in case any you one day would like to do a dissertation on an aspect of the subject matter.
My grandfather and gradmother were white and were sharecroppers. Also my great grandfather was a sharecroppers. My grandfater sharecropped till his death. From his share he hired the blacks, paid for everything. He raised tobacco and cotton. He plowed the fields with a mule. He died in 1959. My grandmother worked puttting up tobacco in the pack house. I know as when i was 7 or 8 i worked beside her. All their 5 sons worked the farm till they joined the military. Mullins SC was a huge hub for tobacco.
When I was station in the US Army in Fort Bragg nc in 1976 I had a girlfriend name Clara Gilchrist who took me to her home in Cameron NC to meet her family who was all tobacco sharecroppers. her dad gave me a tour. of his farm and explain everything about tobacco farming I did not realize how deep this was at that time thing was for black farmers. i still think about that to this very day. I am from Toledo Ohio and I learn so much from her dad about life in the south.
I watched the whole documentary, excellent from beginning to end thank you.
I remembered those days
Thank you for this documentary. It's very interesting.
Thank You ❤
Thank You!!!!
When I was born, my parents were ShareCroppers. They owned their own mules and farming equipment. The landowner got ⅓rd of the cotton and ¼th of the corn. They borrowed money from the bank to buy seed and fertilizer.
Before my parents accrued mules and farm implements they used the landowners mules and equipment. The landowner bought the seed and fertilizer. When the landowner furnished the mules and equipment, the Sharecropper only got a small part of the crops. My dad asked to borrow the mules to turn a plot for a garden, but the landowner refused; so, he tilled the garden by hand.
Picking cotton was hard work, but I enjoyed the fellowship with everyone working in the fields. My first memory of picking cotton was in 1947. I was 5 years old and picked 48 pounds of cotton the first day. I knew a few people that could pick 500 pounds in a day, but I was never able to pick that much.
I very much enjoyed your program but there were some errors recorded. Example: You couldn’t put 500 pounds of cotton in a 9 foot pick sack and it took about 1250 to 1400 pounds of cotton to make a bale. After genning, a bale would weigh around 500 pounds. The seed weighted move that the cotton.
Some of this is true. Maybe in North Carolina. But not all is true about this in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. My Grandmother and Grandpaw was share choppers in Mississippi. One of the biggest plantations in Mississippi known as Rabbit Ridge. My Grandpaw, my Uncles and Aunt did all the work, furnished the mules and equipment. They also payed for all the seed, fertilizer and poison. Not to mention supporting the family. And my family is Irish and German. This I can prove from older people in the family and I am 71 years young.
These are some of the best history classes you will attend on UA-cam.
My father's family owned the land and had sharecroppers . They farmed cotton in Louisiana. My dad worked in the field with them along with the rest of his family
@backtoafrika I totally agree. History has been rewritten to fit some people likes. I totally agree and feel deeply sorryed for the way share croppers was treated. My family was blessed to be able to make it share cropping. I guess that's why they lost there land. Not being in debt with the land owner.
There were white sharecroppers when there were plantations. They didn’t start after the civil war. A white sharecropper’s family, during the slavery time was called poor white trash and were considered lower than slaves. My father and grandfather were sharecroppers, my daddy finally quit when my mama got pregnant and he couldn’t pay the doctor bill. We did pick cotton while daddy was driving a concrete truck or working in a factory. I was picking cotton before I started school.
@@mama13bugs even after the civil war they were called white trash. My mom's family were sharecroppers in New Mexico. They worked on a pinto bean farm in the 20s and 30s. She said they were called white trash
❤ great job 💯 Aman
Great video
The way I understand it .when I was in the Carolinas, the tobacco was for cigarettes and the tobacco in Lancaster] PA. Was used for the outside roll to roll cigars
My maternal grandmother picked cotton as late as 1956 in Copiah County MS with her maternal grandfather which was a share cropper at the time. I’m actually looking for the exact location of this farm he lived on.
Hard work with hard life 😢
This is such a sad story. I was raised on a farm in Oklahoma . We were poor, in a dictionary look up thr word poor and you would see Smith.
I was maybe6-7 when I started working on a tractor!
My maternal family were white share croppers in Clark county Arkansas on the Nevada co Arkansas border, during the depression.
Excellent, excellent, excellent……
👍👍I really really appreciate this documentary, it 💯% historical to me listening at their stories, I’ve heard stories like this growing up as a young child and most of them are exactly like this , I was truly blessed with this documentary, thank you and keep up the great works that GOD is allowing you to do 👆✨❤️💯👆
I have a cotton scale like the one in this video. It was used to weigh the cotton bales.
This is a great documentary. What is the name of the song that starts at the 1:08 time stamp and who is singing it? Great song!
Loved how the Flue cured tobacco was picked off the stalk . Spent many years fighting Burley tobacco , cutting the whole stalk , speared on a stick , five to seven stalks to the stick . Handed up man to man sometimes five or more rails high . Thought there must be an easier way . I was wrong .
My husband and I raised Burley tobacco in middle Tennessee.Worked it 13 months of the year.When you sold your crop, you paid your bills.
My mother was raised in a sharecroppers family . She told a story about a hog killing feast at the land owners mansion . She said her uncle got up and asked the other sharecroppers gathered in a middle room of the mansion . The black folks are eating in the kitchen , the white folks in the dining room , then what the hell are we ? Most of those present left Clark county Kentucky and moved to Ohio . Not much of a story , but I thought i`d share it .
Did the Democrat voting mansion owner??? Brag about beating slaves all day long?
I encourage all races of people to research their history. UA-cam may be the beginning.
In 1933, before the "New Deal" there were 5.5 million white tenent farmers and 3 million black tenent farners... the Exodus north for jobs..
My distant relatives were sharecroppers in Pennsylvania.
i am 67 and i remember the share croppers and they were all white,in this county and none were blacks,please dont make it look like the blacks were mistreated,
bullsh88t
All of that is still better than things today. People were sane back then they even knew the difference between boys and girls.
Yes, my daddy was a sharecropper, and you want to work for free that's what you become a sharecropper. My my older sister's experience the fun at being because between my daddy's Shell shocked from the war and trying to provide for evidently an ever-growing family could not afford or feed. I was adopted out at 9 months so I cannot say what would be like but my sister has memories that she does not want to remember those days. She did tell me this, that she took old potatoes and buried them on a hillside she said people laugh but I think when harvest Time came they had some potatoes. And oh by the way according to the DNA ,we are Scotch, English Scandinavian, so evidently when poor hits it hits everyone no matter what culture they come it's a good thing you know how to dig the Earth and put fertilizer why any private well Sonny area you can grow you some food with or without the permission of the landowner.😊
We need to keep it alive so that younger generation will be able to know and we will not make the whole same mistakes
Keep it up.
They're using our images but we aren't talking in the videos.
Personally I can't watch this. Being a young black American man . The work and faith these people had was brilliant. The hate we get is insane
We all need to know this in detail because the dominant society will distort or Bury it.
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Did you notice the difference in the bag sizes 🤔 👀
54:40 so that's what Jim Ross was talking about all these years
I remember that my grandma made me some step in out of flower sacks one day i fell at school and the kids laughed and said i seen self rising on your butt and i went home crying
I remember my mama telling me that she wore panties made from flour sacks that her mother made for her and my aunt had to wear them too and they would have rags from flour sacks for their time of the month when they got older
"...oh when those cotton balls got rotten, you didn't pick very much cotton...in those old cotton fields back home. It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarcana...in those old cotton fields back home...."
This is quite old because MC was much younger here and hes been dead several years
Aren't sharecroppers no different than regular farmers? Just different in what was grown. My great grandpa on my dad's side farmed AND ran a tiling business, and another great grandpa farmed and ran a threshing machine. They did it by borrowing some money, or making a private contract with a retiring farmer. They produced dairy, hogs, and cattle, with corn, soybeans, oats, and hay(back when it was in bales, not a 2 ton round bale). Same hard work and farmers across this nation did it.
Sharecropping is a lot more work and more beneficial than working at McDonald's or Walmart but people like money so they are not going to work doing sharecropping are they going to do is complain about wages and prices if it was me and I was able to work I would rather sharecrop then working in a factory any day because it would be more beneficial in the long run I'm not scared of hard work and this younger generation needs to be forced to go back to doing hard work and stop becoming criminals
They got theirs on earth, while we look for it in heaven and turn the other cheek.
I'm a 60 year old man. My grandparents shared the horrors of living in the South. There is a God, and although it is a hard journey even in modern society, the last will be first and the first shall be last. Through it all, those people still have no shame in the acute exploitation, and rape in all manners of what they did.
The Japanese get reparations and even claim minorityship in education, yet we are looked down upon. Sadly, our young people will not compete like others for a quality education...... shame ....shame ...shameful.
FOS Some try, some don't, what it is, is! Wallowing in Victimization is the next hurdle.
Blacks are given jobs now over more qualified races. Blacks in 1968 in SC started attending school with whites. Fact so no one since then has an excuse but claim to be victims. It is modern day blacks or whomever make their own decision on education.
At the beginning of this One would assume that only Black people were Share croppers ‘
White people were Share Croppers also .
Very racially divisive content .
Divide And Conquer
I do not understand why slaves have children.
They should be more sharecropping done what the reason people do not share crop is because they are too stupid to do it so since they want to complain about wages and the prices of everything when you do the math it adds up to more than what people make minimum wage if they are sharecropping sharecropping is more beneficial
Who was America's best president? How many on here will say Lincoln?
This old woman could not hold a light to her mother. Her mother had to be a good person. Apparently she didn’t learn anything from her mother.
32:27
The Share Croppers no matter WHAT ,,always owed the lying Land owner .
Not all sharecropers were black. My grampa worked as one all his life but that was in Ark. So maybe it was diffefent in other states.
Who ain’t forgotten after they are gone? Very few that’s who. Name some poor white folks we remember.
In West TN all schools let out for cotton picking. My father was a sharecropper and we were white. This is somewhat incorrect and bothers me as it doesn't tell that part of this history.
These are the real americans not the ones in the city .
Im white and daddy was a sharecropper some of this stuff your saying is not true all sharecropper had it hard black and white
Sorry but this woman is not telling it like it really was. As illustrated in this video poor white folks did work the fields. I say this because I remember as little white boy working along side blacks.
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