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, ...

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 ...

When Bishop Henry Williams left his hometown in Alabama and drove to California, he had eighteen cents in his pocket. It was 1956 and Williams, then 21 years old, didn’t have much of a plan — but he ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest bait and switches ever pulled on American citizens was the ruse of collectively shared farming. It was a simple but effective long con. Farmers and plantation owners convinced newly ...

The Epps-McGill Farmhouse at 679 Eastland Avenue has sat vacant for almost 20 years, but a local organization is raising money to preserve the historic structure and to use it as a means to educate ...

*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 ...