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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule - African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction (Paperback)
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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule - African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction (Paperback)
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"This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great
deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays
offer a counterpoint to the standard story that all African
Americans in the rural South found themselves mired in poverty and
dependency."--Melissa Walker, author of "Southern Farmers and Their
Stories" "A remarkable achievement. The authors in this collection
have retrieved African American farm owners from the margins of
history, making clear that life on the land for African Americans
not only transcended sharecropping but also shaped the contours of
the struggle for freedom and justice."--Hasan Kwame Jeffries,
author of "Bloody Lowndes" This collection chronicles the
tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the
end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of
people in one place at a particular time and the factors that
affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land.
The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of
African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black
farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the
efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice
through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S
Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous
obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families
owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not
simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life
but a core component of the African American experience. Debra A.
Reid, professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, is
author of "Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the
Extension Service and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas." Evan P.
Bennett is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic
University.
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