A historian or academic researcher studying American agricultural history, particularly the post-Civil War era and the systems of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Southern United States.
The prevalence of sharecropping and tenant farming systems in the post-Civil War South, as we well know, fundamentally shaped the economic and social landscape of the region for generations, creating a system of agricultural labor that was, in many ways, a continuation of the exploitative practices of the antebellum period.