Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch's journal The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment stated that "Historians have always argued that racism played an important role in the rebuilding of southern society and the restructuring of agriculture after the Civil War" (Randsom and Richard 134). With the rise of small farms rather than plantation style agriculture of Pre-Civil War Bellum South, the majority of farms were run by family labor. (Randsom and Richard) There was an "extreme prejudice of the whites against land ownership on the part of blacks" (Randsom and Richard 135). This came into the form of credit rating, where white money lenders denied loans to black freedmen, making it impossible to even start their own farms by buying land. So instead of being able to even start a farm. "Only 7.3 percent of all farms, containing 6.7 percent of all farmland, were owned by black operators" (Randsom and Richard 136,137). Those who could not get land either struggled to find jobs as a laborer on a meager salary or became sharecroppers where decisions on all things were made by a landlord (Randsom and Richard 138). "Discriminations in the markets for land and labor meant that black families had to support themselves with fewer acres per family member than did white families" (Randsom and Richard 142) Making a living in rural farms was a difficult for freed blacks, even with freedom, inequalities made life difficult and
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch's journal The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment stated that "Historians have always argued that racism played an important role in the rebuilding of southern society and the restructuring of agriculture after the Civil War" (Randsom and Richard 134). With the rise of small farms rather than plantation style agriculture of Pre-Civil War Bellum South, the majority of farms were run by family labor. (Randsom and Richard) There was an "extreme prejudice of the whites against land ownership on the part of blacks" (Randsom and Richard 135). This came into the form of credit rating, where white money lenders denied loans to black freedmen, making it impossible to even start their own farms by buying land. So instead of being able to even start a farm. "Only 7.3 percent of all farms, containing 6.7 percent of all farmland, were owned by black operators" (Randsom and Richard 136,137). Those who could not get land either struggled to find jobs as a laborer on a meager salary or became sharecroppers where decisions on all things were made by a landlord (Randsom and Richard 138). "Discriminations in the markets for land and labor meant that black families had to support themselves with fewer acres per family member than did white families" (Randsom and Richard 142) Making a living in rural farms was a difficult for freed blacks, even with freedom, inequalities made life difficult and