Southern Small Farmers Standing Their Ground

31/05/2017 40 min
Southern Small Farmers Standing Their Ground

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Episode Synopsis

Professor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War, the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.