Sonia Peeples's ancestors were longtime Mississippians, too, but they were sharecropping cotton.

索尼娅·皮尔普斯的祖先也是老密西西比人，但他们家是种棉花的佃农。

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He lived in the shadow of his smart, generous older brother, a preacher-to-be who was the focus of his sharecropping family's hopes.

他生活在其聪慧大方、将要成为传教士的哥哥的阴影之下，而后者是他所在佃农家庭的希望。

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The play by August Wilson is about black America recalling their migration from the sharecropping farms of the South to the industrialized North in the early 1900s.

这部奥古斯特·威尔森的剧作描写1900年代初期美国黑人回忆从南方佃农迁徙到工业化的北方的历史。

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His family was literally dirt poor, sharecropping corn, wine, olive oil and sheep for a landlord who extracted 50% in payment.

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Most of the time that involved working other peoples' land -- sharecropping.

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My own mother, a beautiful, uneducated woman from a working-class New York family, and my father, a young southern man from a poor sharecropping family who entered the Marines at the age of 17, represented far more to each other than just romance.

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