The Sharecropper Boy Goes Back Home: A Memoir of a Personal Journey Beginning With the Great Depression

by Jim White

Book Overview

I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor farm families of South Carolina as well as other cultural changes over many years. I was born in 1926 to a poor but loving family who owned a cotton farm in Cherokee County, SC. When I was age three, we lost the farm and were soon forced to begin new lives as sharecroppers. The memoir also describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197723271X
• ISBN13: 9781977232717
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"