Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. It was really food as an element of a larger plantation economy, designed to promote a world agricultural market. There we see L.C. Does that characterization seem right to you?

Food 82

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 82

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.

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 106

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.

Acre 52

Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

Food 81

Food Plantation Farming Farming 81