• athos77@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    There were landowners who were abusive to their tenant farmers, or her dad could even have grown up in a sharecropper family. You know what eventually ended sharecropping and tenant farmers? FDR’s New Deal. She should study history more.

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      The paper speculated that they were tenant farmers. And maybe they were abused tenant farmers. But do you know what tenant farmers could do?

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