HIST 1493 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jim Crow Laws, Gossypium Barbadense
17 Sep 2016
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Laws past regulated constructions , windows sewer treatment etc, access to water , start of this, Urban reform efforts will become progressive movement. Subject to the market the market setting prices , international market , egyptian cotton producing and more southern farmers. If you do(cid:374)"t have cash you have to go to the (cid:373)ercha(cid:374)ts are provide collateral (crops) - crop lien. End up losing land and becoming tenant farmers. Share cropping in exchange for working the land , provided with materials to succeed in agriculture , but owe a fraction of crops to the land owner. Tilted in the balance of the land owner. Farmers joining together (farmers alliance) - organizing , millions of ppl and colored farmers. Land owner can basically function as a merchant alliance form to try and. Still subject to the market , trying to organize privately and work within the markets , so in turn they turn to politics.
