Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement Free Audiobook Download by Monica M. White

'In the midst of this history is a vibrant, interracial community of farmers and urban gardeners, as well as ordinary people with little to no connection to agriculture or farming. Such individuals are examples of the new organic agriculturalists and organic food shop owners who are creating a vital alternative in defiance of industrial agriculture.'

This is a very well-researched audiobook, giving an account of the Black Freedom Movement's agricultural roots and the importance of sustainable farming to black liberation. The author discusses how Black Liberation was not only about getting outside, but also about what went on inside the community.

From the mid 1800s through the early 1900's, a series of rebellions by African-American farmers in Mississippi and elsewhere led to the first major shift in U.S. land ownership from black to white hands. These insurrections were sparked by plagues of cotton worms, as well as economic crises, lack of access to credit, land enclosures, and racial violence. In this book, Monica White examines how Black farmers' resistance was part of a broader freedom movement that eventually led to their freedom from slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws

Monica White, who is an activist and farmer, explores the connections between the agricultural liberation movements of black farmers, agrarian resistance in America and the larger Black Freedom Movement.

Monica M. White's "Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement" is a compelling, in-depth account of the African American struggle for economic and political freedom through their agricultural pursuits, from chattel slavery up to the present day. White details the experiences of a range of African American farmers, sharecroppers, and rural workers during this time period using a wide range of sources such as interviews, diaries, letters, newspapers, and government documents.

"The Freedom Farmers embody a key aspect of the Black Freedom Movement that is often ignored or underestimated. The Freedom Farmers are those African Americans who were willing to take the risk of operating legally on stolen property, rather than continue to be illegally enslaved."