Cotton Culture Research Paper

What I think is meant by “Cotton Culture” is an exclusive, hospitable group of farmers that prestigiously operated a large acreage of land, to make profit for themselves and their tenants. Before the Civil War, the South became very self sufficient in sharecropping; gaining for profit and obtaining free labor. Plantation owners would travel from one state to another visiting friends and showing hospitality with their profits by way of southern cooking, music and like formal parties. I can imagine these elites would go back and forward about how much more fruitful the next farmers land was going to be in July or bragging on his strongest working slave. Cotton Culture aristocrats lived a very high profile life stye. One could image that the life on a plantation would be marvelous. Growing his own food and having an income to provide for his hundred something acre land, is remarkable. He wouldn't ever have to make a trip and stand in line at the grocery store. The unfortunate side of harvesting cotton is that there are several steps to take before the cotton can even be …show more content…
Federal programs became useful during that time for plantation owners. The plantation would consist of a Landlord and a Tenant. The landlord receives the AAA corp program funds, but would sometimes find financial relief by evicting the tenant. That is when the government formed the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a union that would protect all laborers from falling into the sharecropper “system”. The government also created the UNIA which was protection from white men taking advantage of black women. The KKK formed heavily through out the top of the state and publicly harassed other religions and races after the war. They became stronger in number and demanded order and stability in their recently restored organization (Whayne. A Native Story.). There are still members of the KKK organization today but at least lynching seized after the