Dr. Adrienne Petty and Dr. Mark Schultz will discuss their new book, Our Land: Southern Black Farmers Since Emancipation Book Talk. During the talk they will also discuss their companion website created with the guidance and support of the William & Mary Libraries' Digital Scholarship Projects Team.
Our Land tells the story of Black Southerners who gained ownership of land and farmed it throughout the era of Jim Crow. Drawing on a new oral history collection and archival research, Adrienne M. Petty and Mark R. Schultz analyze over 300 interviews with farmers and their descendants to better understand how so many rural Black families became farm owners despite the considerable odds stacked against them.
Spineless Reads will be on-site selling copies of his book.
