The History of Black Farmers
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2021
- Well before formal legislation was passed, promising freed slaves certain land rights, Black farmers traveled west, exploring, and developing heavily forested land. With tons of experience in their pockets, migrating west made sense and allowed Black farmers and their families a safe place to live and grow.
But like most of America’s history, White settlers began to impose new laws and tactics on the once uncharted territory. Eventually, the land Black farmers cleared, plowed, and cultivated prohibited - either directly or indirectly - their existence in those spaces. Through violence, theft, and other mischievous practices, many Black farmers lost their ability to inhabit land they founded and worked on.
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. - with additional commentary from Imani Perry of Princeton University and Hasan Jeffries of Ohio State University, we look at the plight of Black farmers and how systemic behavior of the 1800s is still felt in the agriculture sector today.
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Archival Materials Courtesy of:
• Alamy Images
• Getty Images
• Library of Congress
• The General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH) of the United Methodist Church, Madison, New Jersey
• The New York Public Library
Additional Archival by:
• National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Executive Producers:
• Robert F. Smith
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Dyllan McGee
• Deon Taylor
Senior Producer:
• William Ventura
Series Producers:
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura
Executive in Charge of Production:
• Robert L. Yacyshyn
Post Production Supervisor:
• Veronica Leib
Post Production Coordinator:
• Katherine Swiatek
Written By:
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Additional Writing:
• Kevin Burke
• Kelsi Lindus
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura
Editors:
• Margaret Metzger
• Anne Yao
Producer:
• Kevin Burke
Archival Producer:
• Megan Graham
Research:
• Zoë Smith
Assistant Editors:
• Patrice Bowman
• Nicholas Mastrangelo
Director of Photography:
• Nikki Bramley
• Nausheen Dadabhoy
• Stephen McCarthy
Graphic Design:
• Anthony Kraus
Special Thanks:
• Daina Ramey Berry
• Sam Hartley
• Elyssa Hess
• Stacey Holman
• Hasan Jeffries
• Peniel Joseph
• Imani Perry
Music By:
• Oovra Music
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Great content, yall do a amazing job condensing a lot of information in to a few mins, I always learn a lot.
My heart bleeds from seeing this. I’m praying for our black farmers and family’s eternally. God bless!
Breaks my heart. Breaks my heart.... 😔
thank you for this video and others like it.!
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Great video, but It would be nice for a more explaination as to why the prevelance of black farmers is still so low today and what kind of laws was passed during the great depression that helped the white farmers more than the blacks? Since both had land, and I presume both the white and black farmers were equally skilled, as to why this happened. Thanks
agreed. Lots of people aren’t aware of usda discrimination in diffrent type of aids such as grants and loans for farming and agriculture. The real answer is systemic racism, they use to not give loans or grants to black farmers and would also make the foreclosure process on their farms quicker than their Caucasian counterparts. The population of African American farmers has dwindled to 14% of all farmer all the way down into the 1. Something percent black farmers are literally about to be extinct there is 50,000 of them left.
There was recently legislation passed during the pandemic to offer 2.2 billion to minority farmers but there was opposition from Florida, Texas,and a few states up north they claimed that because the aid was specifically for minorities that they were being discriminated against due to them not being able to receive the money.
Do I agree with the Caucasian farmers that it is discriminatory, yes. Do I think it was fair? yes. Do I think it was necessary? Yes.
The agency has came foward and are not denying that they racially discriminated against people the analytics show the extent of the damage the discrimination caused both in dollar amount/acre amount and just the sheer number of the current minority farmer population. Tbh with you I feel in my children’s life time there will be no black farmers at all nothing has been done to right wrongs and the world is becoming a tougher and tougher place since money doesn’t go as far as it use to.
Laws never changed and it won’t
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