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. Recently in July 2024, the USDA announced it had issued payments amounting to $2.2
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. It really is modern-day sharecropping.
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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. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. So these struggling agricultural regions could get their excess crops purchased by the federal government, and then turn around and not actually provide that subsidized food back to its sharecropping population as intended. Like what you see here?
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
She notes that rural livelihoods, marginalization, and meager economic resources—the reality of Black roots in this country— have encouraged strong cooperative networks. Still, “it’s difficult to unbuild how land was used to punish us for 400 years,” Mack says, referring to the deep scars left by a history of enslavement and sharecropping.
Civil Eats
JUNE 4, 2024
Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. Emmanuel Fields, Frankfort, Kentucky His grandmother’s sharecropping experience made him turn away from a connection to agriculture and community. When we started, there was no “ High on the Hog ,” no “ Searching for Soul Food.”
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