Rural Land Ownership Among the Negroes of Virginia With Special Reference to Alb
Rural Land Ownership Among the Negroes of Virginia With Special Reference to Alb
Samuel T Samuel Tilden Bitting
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Allowing for the recent purchases in this average, this further bears out our conclusion reached earlier in this paper 7 that negroes did not begin to acquire property in large numbers much before 1880. The tendency since the War in Albemarle, as elsewhere, has been for the size of farms to steadily decrease. After the War 7. See above, 30 & 31. 64 PHELPS-STOKES FELLOWSHIP PAPERS the plantation system was impossible to maintain because of the difficulty of controlling the negroes, and after a f...ew years of un successful attempts was given up. In 1850 the average size of a farm in Albemarle County was probably about 300 acres, 8 or some sixty acres larger than the average farm for the state as a whole; in 1880 this average had shrunk to 202 acres and in 1910 to 141 acres. Thus the breaking up of the plantations tended to ward the creation of small farms for both whites and blacks and enabled the poor whites as well as the negroes to become owners and operate their own farms. That tenantry, especially for the negroes, is a thing of the past and that the farmers are becoming more and more owners is shown by the following : TABLE XIV: FARM TENURE 1900-1910.
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