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"as little as they could get away with" is still a hell of a lot when you don't have a tractor.
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
"as little as they could get away with" is still a hell of a lot when you don't have a tractor.
- aidenn0 6y agoRoughly a factor of 4 difference though[1]. The article states 5 acres was a typical farm size while an extended family unit with two adult males could farm 20 acres. A later article goes into the fact that tenant-farmers (a.k.a sharecroppers) would keep only 50% of what they farmed compared to 80-90% for non-tenant farmers. 1: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/ https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...