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Land Speculators Are Legally Forcing Black Southerners Off Family Land
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Land Speculators Are Legally Forcing Black Southerners Off Family Land

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For generations, black landowners in the South relied on informal agreements, instead of wills, to keep property in the family. In a new article from investigative news outlet ProPublica, reporter Lizzie Presser explores how African Americans lost about 90% of their farmland between 1910 and 1997 and how that loss is connected to distrust of the legal system. In Carteret County, North Carolina, a speculator bought the land out from under two brothers. They spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave the land their great-grandfather had bought in the early 1900s. Mitchell Reels, the Reels brothers’ grandfather, grew up in the Jim Crow South and didn’t trust local courts, so he left no will to his family. His family’s 65 acres became heirs’ property, meaning his descendants inherited the land as an interest, like stock in a company. Speculators and developers can exploit this shared ownership with cooperation from descendant shareholders who do not even live on the property (one of

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