The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. This was yet another exploitative system that only benefited wealthy White farmers.

Sharecropping 88

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 88

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. Across the road, peacocks shriek. They must be pets?

Plantation 141

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 141

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Acre 90

Acre Farming Farming Crop 90

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It wasn’t much, but they had only to cross the river to hunt wild game, gather native fruits, and harvest natural dyes for pottery and textiles they sold in local markets. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. Now, those forests were being cleared.

Plantation 115

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 115