Tenancy and Ownership Among Negro Farmers in Southampton County, Virginia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tenancy and Ownership Among Negro Farmers in Southampton County, VirginiaThe principal form of wealth owned by the persons-interviewed was farm land and the equipment requisite for its Operation. Table 8 contains a classification of these holdings. Although more than half of the owners had holdings of less than 100 acres and nearly 70 per cent under 150 acres, there were 6 with 500 acres or over and 23 with 250 acres or more. Only 3 tenants and 1 cropper had ever owned land, and only 2 tenants and 1 cropper owned land at the time of the Survey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.