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1. A previous version of this article was presented at the 2nd National Black Land Loss Summit, Tillery, N.C., February 1998, and at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada, August 1997. An earlier version also appeared as Working Paper No. 12, North America Series, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This research was funded by the North American Program of the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The opinions expressed in this paper are our own and not necessarily those of the Land Tenure Center. We appreciate the comments provided by the anonymous reviewers as well as those from Bill Thiesenhusen and Anne Effland. We especially thank Elvadus Fields and the farmers in “Delta Country” who shared information with us.
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Wood, S.D., Gilbert, J. Returning Aftican American farmers to the land: Recent trends and a policy rationale. Rev Black Polit Econ 27, 43–64 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02717262
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