Black farmers denied loans teach each other how to make money growing hemp
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May 01 2021 at 2:00 PM GMT
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- You can't tell the story of Angela Dawson, the founder of 40 Acre Cooperative, a nationwide collective helping Black and Indigenous farmers learn about growing hemp, without going back to her great, great grandfather, Jabez Dawson, an enslaved man in Georgia.
- As she explains it, the Dawson family's farming history started when Jabez bought farmland in Kansas after purchasing his freedom as a young man.
- Jabez was able to profit off of the land, eventually expanding and moving further north to southern Iowa.
- It was there that the Dawsons planted their roots as farmers — and where they ran into the same kinds of systemic barriers that have plagued Dawsons, and other Black farmers, in the decades since.
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- Published May 1, 2021 2:00 PM GMT