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🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484

"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."

length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6Q

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"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."

Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/slavery-ancient-rome-plebeian-farmers-poverty/ (accessed May 7, 2024).

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