Question
Read the following sentence from page 186:
"Families who had lived for many years on the little 'cropper lands' were dispossessed because the land was in the hands of the banks and finance companies, and because these owners found that one man with a tractor could do the work of ten sharecropper families."
What is the meaning of the word dispossessed as it is used in the text?
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detoured to a new location
detoured to a new location
determined to seek revenge
determined to seek revenge
deprived of what they owned
deprived of what they owned
depressed about their condition
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deprived of what they owned
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