Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. The elders refer to the USDA as the last plantation, she says.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. today it is less than 2 percent.

Acre 103

Acre Crop Farming Farming 103

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

Food 98

Food Plantation Sharecropping Farming 98