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Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chriesman Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1988
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hicks Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1988
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Goodwill Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1988
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milano Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale East Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gause Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanover Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cameron Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Maysfield Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ben Arnold Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lexington Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1982
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beaukiss Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1982
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alcoa Lake Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1988
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thorndale Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale West Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Gabriel Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Granger Lake Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1988
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pettibone Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sharp Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Davilla Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale East Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date:
1982
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Davilla Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date:
1989
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marlin
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:100000
Date:
1985
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History