Land, Labor, and Power: Why Sharecropping Replaced Slavery in All but Name
Why Land Ownership Terrified the Southern Power Structure The idea of an enfranchised, land-holding Black population was intolerable to the white Southern planter class. Land was not just property; it was power, independence, and leverage. If formerly enslaved people owned land, they could feed themselves, negotiate their labor, and exit exploitative arrangements. That reality threatened […]
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