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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. And for a few brief promising decades, Allensworth thrived in the way its founders envisioned.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

Plantation

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Agriculture Informer

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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