Ernest Paul Braxton

Sharecropper Ernest Paul Braxton

SHARE CROPPER 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 woreflour sack underwear? All of us trust and pray such bad times will never return, but don't count on it.