The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers: Perhaps the most fundamental thing that had to be decided the day that slavery ended was what ...

Stacey Murphy’s BK Farmyards sounds like a good idea, but how does it compare to history’s better-known example of sharecropping? Here’s our first-ever chart comparing backyard farming and ...

Sharecropping became popular after the Civil War’s end in 1865 when landowners no longer had slaves and there were millions of freed slaves looking for work. In many cases, former masters turned to ...

The Epps-McGill Farmhouse at 679 Eastland Avenue has sat vacant for almost 20 years, but a local organization is raising money to preserve the historic structure and to use it as a means to educate ...

Do you have a story to tell about sharecropping in Williamsburg County, the Pee Dee or Low Country regions or another part of South Carolina? Epps-McGill Farmhouse is seeking to document and preserve ...

Students in an eighth grade Le Roy classroom played former enslaved people and were made to pay pretzels to a plantation owner ― their teacher ― during a history lesson on sharecropping that the New ...