The Great Migration of Southern Blacks to Northern Cities

We had sort of something like a peasantry. But we never had to do, I mean they weren't really peasants,. They were small landowners and there were tons of them in this country. And they now mostly been replaced by agribusiness conglomerates. It went peacefully because they were mostly kicked off the land by advances in tractor technology. One of the biggest things that caused the great migration of southern blacks in America to northern cities was the introduction of machine harvesting of cotton. Yeah, it was racist, but it had been racist there for generations. In the 20s it was racist and there were less jobs to go for people to work the fields. Now under capitalism those people are