Farming Transitions

Farming Transitions. . , From antiquity, farming was done by people with basic tools. Mules and other animals provided more power. From the 1700s to the mid-1900s, the use of workers, enslaved then sharecropper, allowed the growing of labor-intensive crops., The end of the plantation era was caused, not by the Civil War, but by the transition from working by hand or with animals to using machinery. The mechanization of agriculture in the 20th century changed how crops were planted and harvested., Mechanical cotton pickers replaced large numbers of farmworkers. Between 1910 and 1970, six million African Americans moved out of the rural South in the Great Migration partly because of the loss of farm jobs.