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their own cotton. . . . They can’t dispute the landlord’s word, if he is white, and they
can’t move if they owe him. Even if they don’t owe him, another landlord won’t
take them unless the one they’re renting from is willing for him to go.’
For example, see Raper, “Race and Class Pressures,” pp. 178-180.
“^^Ray Stannard Baker, Following the Color Line (1908), p. 79.
See Davis, Gardner, and Gardner, of. cit.y p. 356.
Mangum informs us:
There is a common-law rule that one can recover damages from anyone who entices
away one’s servant. Moreover, an Arkansas enticement statute, applying to the luring
of renters as well as laborers, has been held not to be in conflict with the Thirteenth
Amendment or the peonage statutes.”^
Raper tells a story about a case in Warren County, Georgia, where almost two-
thirds of the population are Negro. Adjoining Glasscock County, where the popula-
tion includes a relatively large proportion of small white farmers, had an unusually good
cotton crop in 1937 and sent to Warren County for pickers, bidding a higher price
than planters in that county wanted to give. The result was a series of rather violent
demonstrations and intimidations by organized vigilantes. The trucks from Glasscock
County had to turn back without any pickers, and the enraged Warren farmers forced
all Negroes they could get hold of to work for them, entering their homes in order to
find them, scarcely even leaving the domestics employed by other white families in
peace.®
Ibid.y p. 179.
“Where the system flourishes, ignorance, prejudice, and cruelty are the- rule, not
the exception. The arrangement has behind it the weight of tradition and public
opinion, tainted by fear and hate. The white owners know no other order. The Negro
tenant is poor, illiterate, and intimidated. There are few better landlords to whom he
could transfer his allegiance if he tried.”^
Chapter 12. New Blows to Southern Agriculture During the Thirties
Trends and Policies
^ U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics: 1^40^ pp. 108-11 1
Gunnar Lange, “Trends in Southern Agriculture,” unpublished manuscript prepared for
this study (1940), pp. 17 ff. and Table A5.
^ Lange, “Trends in Southern Agriculture,” p. 18.
^The situation was aggravated by the depression after 1929. Domestic and foreign
demand for textiles dropped sharply with increased unemployment and reduced indus-
trial income. As a result the demand for cotton lint fell off rapidly, and prices dropped
to half the pre-war level. The textile industries in the main cotton manufacturing
countries abroad began to place more of their purchasing contracts with producers else-
where than in the United States. England and France took larger shares of their cotton
import from their dominions and from Egypt and Brazil. In Brazil cotton production
*Of. cit.y p. 356.
‘’Charles S. Mangum, Jr., The Legal Status of the Negro (1940), p. 170.
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