“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.” This passage is from Pete Daniel's book titled “Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights.” It alludes to the untold acres of land seized from Black farmers and rural landowners over the last century. Though
How Vast Amounts Of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans
An estimated 80 percent of Black-owned farmland in the south had disappeared since 1969.
