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 89

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 89

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources.

Food 98

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 98

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 121

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 121

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. Even after slavery was abolished in New Jersey in 1866, white farmers created their own form of sharecropping called “ cottaging ,” where former enslaved Black people would provide labor in exchange for shelter and crops.

Food 104

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 104

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

When you go to a farmers market, you harvest and you hope you don't come back with much. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold. A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. He often thinks deeply about their experiences. But it's not just Black folks.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains.

Acre 52

Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock. Emmanuel Fields, Frankfort, Kentucky His grandmother’s sharecropping experience made him turn away from a connection to agriculture and community. [link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule.

Food 110

Food Seeding Farming Farming 110