For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question - Harry Haywood
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Haywood's Arguments on Sharecropping in the South
Haywood argues that Jackson wants to downplay the importance of the sharecropping system, giving its significance at most as having a small geographical distribution along with an outsized ideological influence on southern law. Haywood concludes this section by insisting that quote, we find the mechanization of agriculture far from being a boon to the Negro soil tiller has resulted in widespread unemployment and displacement of Negro sharecroppers and tenants from the land.
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