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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

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.

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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

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.