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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT of post-war sharecropping slavery is important because the economic reality survives and continues to punish modern-day Southerners. The Federal Empire forced the South to accept a second-class economy which assured future generations, down to today, would live in the poorest section of the United States. Even though sharecropping slavery ended in the 1950s the impact continues today. The maps following the sharecropping photograph section document the continuing impact of Federal invasion and post-war sharecropping slavery. It demonstrates the fact that we the people of the South are indeed a separate, but captive, nation within the current Federal Empire. The following photographs were taken approximately 70 years after the end of the so-called “Civil War.” As you review these photographs keep in mind the Yankee promise to punish Southerners with “poverty” and to dress Southern children in “rags.” And remember—the economic and politically correct punishment continues.
Front porch of sharecropper cabin, New Madrid County, Missouri. 1938. (Courtesy LOC)
