Black Belt (region of Alabama)
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black-belt-region-of-alabama-184-1862871
title:
Black Belt (region of Alabama)
text:
The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War, many freedmen stayed in the area as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, continuing to comprise a majority of the population in many o
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Region of Alabama originally named for black topsoil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(region_of_Alabama)
date created:
2005-06-09T04:08:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T03:42:22Z
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