The Tribulations Of Sharecrop Farmers

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55). The shoddy houses that they lived in could
not be helped, but it did not improve there defenses against disease.
Being so open to disease by the housing, it was no surprise that
various illnesses struck the south with a vengeance. Housing was not the
only way that farmers opened themselves up to disease, sharecroppers were
often deprived of adequate food and clothing(Walker 92). The insufficient
food among families of farmers was a side-effect of the sharecropping
system(Walker 6). Of the food eaten not very much of it was considered
part of a healthy diet. Fat salt pork is the common meat(Walker 33), and
many farmers confessed that garden vegetables, milk, butter, and eggs were
really never part of their diet(McKeon pg. 116). Without healthy food,
malnutrition became common among the farmers. All of these factors
stacking up allowed disease to become prevalent among the south. Doctors
began to find the southern children often suffered of Pellagra(Walker ...

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