Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

‘Rhythms of the Land’ Preserves the Untold Stories of Black Farmers Filmmaker and cultural anthropologist Gail Myers discusses the making of her documentary, the oppressive history of sharecropping, and power of seed saving for Black farmers.

Food 137

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 137

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.

Sharecropping 82

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 82

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways. But the process hasn’t always come easily.

Acre 95

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 95

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. It’s many other people of color that have been put in bad positions when it comes to agriculture, like slavery and sharecropping. He often thinks deeply about their experiences. But it's not just Black folks.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

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 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping. He returned to the plantation house to share the news with his mother and sister Flora, then fled on foot to the southeast side of Warren County, to the township of Shocco.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. had at last managed to buy the cotton fields that his father, the son of freed slaves, had begun sharecropping in the late nineteenth century. In 1949, U.D.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89