The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
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A 1902 paper by Alfred Holt Stone, a Mississippi cotton planter, on Black agricultural labor and race relations in the nine-county Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, presented at the American Economic Association's fourteenth annual meeting. It gives census population figures, describes plantation tenancy systems (cropping, renting, the crop lien), housing, cotton yields and picking wages, and the "benders" cotton grade. It closes with the author's own plantation experiment, with account figures for tenant families. The paper reflects the racial views of its period and is of interest chiefly for the economic history of cotton.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- February 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 38
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