The Sharecropper's Wife: A Memoir

Growing up in rural Person County, North Carolina during the Great Depression, Lucille Daniel learned how to work at a very early age. Like most sharecroppers, her family moved almost every year, enduring harsh conditions and dishonest landowners. She attended a one-room school house through the eighth grade, and married a sharecropper at age 19. Being a sharecropper's wife meant uprooting her family every spring and moving to a different tobacco farm. It meant using every ounce of creativity and resourcefulness to turn a shack into a home. It meant using her faith to make something out of nothing. Through it all, she kept one dream in her heart: her children would get the education that she was denied. They would have a better life than she did. They would not be forced to work someone else's land. And they would leave the tobacco fields forever.

• • Author: Lucille Daniel
• • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• • Publication Date: Jan 22, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 100 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1483423646
• • ISBN-13: 9781483423647