SHARECROPPER
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Without doctors and electricity, it was dark in many
ways. Life was dark for the farmers because most were sharecroppers
like our father. Although it was
comforting for some to know that many were in the same boat, that joy fades
when the boat is clearly sinking.
Although poor economically, sharecroppers were not
poor in spirit and did not complain as much in those days. One hears much more from the whining
unfortunates in today's society. For example, an organization exists today to
carry the cries of street people to the media and elsewhere. There were many more people out in the
streets in the 1930s than now, but they had nobody to cry for them.
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About the Book
SHARECROPPER is a biography of my father, whose name
is, Melton C. Braxton, deceased.
M.C. Braxton was an extraordinary man, and he fought
the Great Depression with such tenacity he raised eleven children while
delivering half his crop to a landlord.
Not surprisingly, he bought out the landlord before the Depression
ended. Like millions of others, he was
saved from the depression by nothing less than World War Two. By that time, his oldest sons had fled to
greener pastures, and the C.C.C. was a welcome change for them.
How many of us can remember long hot days in a
cotton patch? How many of us poured
cane syrup in a hole, drilled in a biscuit with a finger, for lunch? Or wore
flour sack underwear?
All of us trust and pray such bad times will never
return, but don’t count on it.
About the Author
E. Paul Braxton was born and educated in the Florida
panhandle, where he lives today.
Braxton is a graduate of the University of West Florida, receiving
Bachelor and Master degrees. He has
received numerous awards for his writing, and has published eight novels. Most of his books can be seen. and ordered
from his web page, http://www.gtcom.net/~imhermit.