How Blacks Were Brutally Robbed of Their Lands And Wealth | Black Culture

June 17, 2024 Pharaoh

At the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans owned at least 14 million acres of land. By the 21st century, 90 percent of the land had been stolen from them. Now, African Americans only own one point one million acres of farmland and are part owners of another one point zero seven million acres. Across a century, white farmers and landowners developed multiple ways to take African Americans’ land, using methods such as violence, heirs’ property, tax sales, and Torrens Acts. Of all these, the heirs property act is still in force today, as black owners lose every source of wealth they’ve created for generations.

To understand the magnitude of this land theft, we must examine the extreme measures taken by those who captured the land from African American landowners. Both laws and practices allowed white landowners, farmers, and developers to manipulate the system so they could gain control over the land owned by African American farmers and homeowners.
In this video, we are going to take a look at the four ways black Americans were robbed of their land and how these robberies still occurs today.

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