Black Farmers in America

"In 1920 black Americans made up 14 percent of all the farmers in the nation, and they owned and worked 16 million acres of land. Today, battling the onslaught of globalization, changing technology, an aging workforce, racist lending policies, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, black farmers account for less than 1 percent of the nation's farmers and cultivate fewer than 3 million acres of land. Experts predict that within the next ten years, black-owned family farms will all but cease to exist." "Inside these statistics is a story of human loss that led photographer John Francis Ficara on a four-year journey across America to document and preserve the struggles of black farmers. The result of this journey is Black Farmers in America, a collection of 100 photographs reproduced in duotone that captures poignant images of hardship, survival, and a people's bond to the soil at the end of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Ficara, John Francis is the author of 'Black Farmers in America ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780813123998 and ISBN 0813123992.