Black Land Loss: 1920–1997
Dania V. Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas W. Mitchell, Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Stucki
Abstract
Black agricultural land ownership was at a peak just after the turn of the twentieth century; however, there was a nearly 90 percent decline in ownership from 1910 to 1997. In this paper, we use US Census of Agriculture data to estimate that the present, compounded value of the Black land loss from 1920 to 1997 is roughly $326 billion.
Topics & Concepts
CensusAgricultureGeographyLand tenureAgricultural economicsAgricultural landLand useValue (mathematics)Land valueEconomicsArchaeologyDemographyPopulationStatisticsMathematicsSociologyEngineeringCivil engineeringLand Rights and Reforms