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 111

Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

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 Acre Farming Farming 144

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

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.” When I watch that stuff, I’m so happy.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

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.

Agriculture 124

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 124

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. “That’s the only way we survived.” She sees greater representation in the field as key to reclaiming that relationship for a new generation.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

Food 104

Food Plantation Sharecropping Farming 104

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Baker then covers the sharecropping economy and the Great Migration , spanning the mid-1800s through the early 20th century, when Black people transitioned from enslavement to a level of autonomy. The book opens with a brief history of U.S.

Farmland 128

Farmland Farming Farming Sharecropping 128

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. They grabbed their chainsaws and piled onto several tuk tuks, heading out to a 500-acre plot of land that a local land trafficker had told them they could claim as their own to cultivate oil palm for the company.

Plantation 126

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126