• glans [it/its]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If the soil is fertile why did the white ppl let the black ppl have it? Dont white ppl usually like fertile soil to built cities on

    • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      In this case, and most of the south states post civil war, white people still own the farm land but rent it out to the black former slave families who would live there and do the actual farming.