[billhilly]

"Not all sharecroppers were black."

In a time when lots of people didn't have work, sharecroppers got to eat. It was a necessity for some, because welfare had not then been invented.

[Red Badger]

I know, but the word, "sharecropper", seems to have evolved to exclude whites..........

[Locomotive Breath]

You're right. Farmers (whether freeholders or sharecroppers) in the Great Depression rarely starved although there was almost no "cash money" available. It was a shared experience between almost everyone - black and white alike.