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Also by Juan Williams:

Muzzled, July 2012
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Muzzled, August 2011
Hardcover
Enough, August 2006
Hardcover
Black Farmers in America, March 2006
Hardcover
Eyes on the Prize, February 1988
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Also by John Francis Ficara:

Black Farmers in America, March 2006
Hardcover

Black Farmers in America
Juan Williams, John Francis Ficara

A new book of photographs captures a portrait of America's black farmers as their numbers dwindle.

University of Kentucky Press
March 2006
128 pages
ISBN: 0813123992
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

John Francis Ficara spent four years photographing black farmers across America, witnessing firsthand the difficulties faced by families who simply want to continue living and working on their land. Black Farmers in America reproduces in duotone over a hundred of Ficara's exquisite photographs that capture the labor and joy of daily life on the family farm. In these poignant images of financial hardship, survival, and the people's bond to the soil, Black Farmers in America documents for posterity the struggle of black farmers in America at the end of the twentieth century to preserve their heritage.

In 1920 black Americans made up 14 percent of all the farmers in the nation and worked 16 million acres of land. Today, battling the onslaught of globalization, changing technology, an aging workforce, racist lending policies, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, black farmers account for less than 1 percent of the nation's farmers and cultivate fewer than 3 million acres of farmland. Inside these statistics is a staggering story of human loss: when each farm closed, those farmers, their spouses, children, grandchildren, and the people they hired, all had to leave a way of life that had existed in their families for generations.

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