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ZEICHNER, Oscar.
The Legal Status of the Agricultural Laborer in the South.
$85
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New York, Political Science Quarterly,, 1949, 8vo, buff printed wrappers
Journal off-print, As New
ZEICHNER, Oscar. The Legal Status of the Agricultural Laborer in the South. Not illustrated; title + pp. 412-428 pp (an off-print from Political Science Quarterly, vol. LV, no. 3, September 1940. 8vo, buff printed wrappers. New York: 1940.
OCLC shows two institutions cataloging this as a separate: Harvard and Howard Universities. Laid in is a fragment showing Zeichner’s return address attached to a “With the Compliments of the Author” card.
Oscar Zeichner (1916-2012) was a History Professor at City College, New York, born in Brooklyn, he was the first member of his family to go to college. He went to City College for his B.A. and to Columbia for his M.A. and PhD., returning to City College, he spent his entire academic life there.
A rather sobering account of the condition of both sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the post -Civil War South. By the adoption of various statutes suggested by the plantation owners, the legislature has managed to ensure that the landowner retains full control over the management of his land whether it is actually farmed by a sharecropper or tenant, the two terms became confused and treated in much the same way. Also the fact that the landowner often supplied tools, clothing and food and he cost of these was deducted at the end of the season, meant that for many of the laborers, there was a zero balance due to them. For those workers who supplied their own tools and, perhaps, a mule, special and better percentages of the crop were given. To ensure that workers did not walk away from their contract (which could be verbal), laws were implemented calling for imprisonment or jail if a farmer broke his contract and left his crop because it was doing badly and went off to find other work.
The final conclusion was that many of the African-American tenants and sharecroppers were no better of than they were under slavery.
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