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A Long Row to Hoe:

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A Long Row to Hoe:

[Thesis]

Johnson, Brea

Black Sharecroppers in North Carolina, 1865-1965

Johnson, Charles D.

North Carolina Central University

2020

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M.A.

North Carolina Central University

2020

The Sharecropping system in the 19th and 20th century in North Carolina had a significant impact on the African-American community. Blacks were liberated and wanting to excel in American society. But due to Jim Crow and racist Southern whites, African Americans still found themselves systematically oppressed. This capstone project is a digital history of African American sharecropping with an emphasis on North Carolina between the years 1865 and 1965. In it I argue that African American sharecroppers in North Carolina were trapped in an economically exploitative system that was the natural evolution of slavery and mimicked it both in form and intent. Before 1960, African Americans in North Carolina were primarily agriculturalists and shortly after emancipation most of them in the state were part of the sharecropping system. This was a tremendous economic setback for African Americans that had the effect of giving whites, especially those who owned farms, a financial advantage. In many ways, then, African Americans in North Carolina have been, in a literal sense, playing catch up.

African American studies

Agriculture

Black sharecroppers

North Carolina

Sharecropping

Sharecropping in North Carolina

Johnson, Brea

Johnson, Charles D.

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[Thesis]

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