The saga of sharecropping: Reflecting on its tolls and the tenacity of family that helped build Virginia and the South

Farming has never been easy. Not even for those who owned their property and its profits. But those who remember sharecropping say it was more brutal, and for some, akin to slavery without the whips.

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