Farm tenancy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Reuben Chapman to Septimus D. Cabaniss
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4716
Scope and Contents
This signed letter by former Congressman and Confederate diplomat Reuben Chapman, is addressed to Alabama lawyer and former Confederate officer Septimus Douglass Cabaniss. Written on February 5, 1869, from Sumter County, Alabama, the letter discusses Chapman's interactions with freedmen sharecroppers, his concerns about cotton prices, and various business dealings. Chapman describes purchasing the freedmen's share of the cotton crop amid concerns over price fluctuations and their growing...
Dates:
1869 February 5
What the South Means to the Nation Report
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4735
Scope and Contents
A Communist Party report on the South, which describes its natural resources, the poverty and exploitation of its farmers, sharecroppers and tenants, and the root if its "backwardness": the "national oppression of the Negro people in the Black Belt." The report concludes with the Communist Party's commitment to fighting white chauvinism and in uniting mass organizations in the struggle against the oppression of African Americans.
Dates:
1949