The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers: Perhaps the most fundamental thing that had to be decided the day that slavery ended was what ...

Sharecropping became popular after the Civil War’s end in 1865 when landowners no longer had slaves and there were millions of freed slaves looking for work. In many cases, former masters turned to ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Attorney Greg Francis talked about the concept of sharecropping and how African American farmers were adversely impacted by United States Department of ...

Sharecropping is a system where the landlord-planter allows a tenant (usually a poor, Black family) to farm the land in exchange for a share of the crops they harvest. This encouraged poor tenants to ...

The term sharecropping immediately conjures up vivid and negative images of the South’s post-Civil War confusion, where the popular system of a landowner leasing land to farmers in exchange for part ...

*It's not real "Favela Chic" until you realize that this scheme makes as much sense as eating imported jet-set vegetables that were marooned in mid-air by fuel costs ...

Commercial kitchens are expensive, but making food out of your apartment isn’t exactly legal or sustainable. So what’s a fledging food maker to do? Urban sharecropping. Three years ago, Betsy Devine ...

The end of sugar planting closes a major chapter in Hawaii’s history. But what will be done with the aina? One hopes it will not become gated estates, with prices tragically out of reach of our local ...