32 HUMAN FACTORS IN COTTON CULTURE 



Texas Black Lands. With this exception the dot map of 

 cotton farms operated by Negro tenants follows the 

 plantation map accurately. The map of distribution of 

 Negro owners shows them sparsely scattered all over the 

 South. "They are relatively most numerous on the At- 

 lantic Coastal Plain and the Interior Coastal Plain in 

 Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. They are least numer- 

 ous where the plantation system prevails." ' 



While cotton plantations are found in all the cotton 

 states, sugar cane, rice, and tobacco plantations are found 

 confined to special limited areas. Tobacco and cotton are 

 cultivated together on plantations in the Coastal Plains 

 of North and South Carolina. Rice planters with a de- 

 veloped tenant system occur in east central Arkansas, 

 Louisiana, and southeast Texas. The sugar cane planta- 

 tions are found in southern Louisiana. 60 



A mapping of the white tenants 61 shows them most 

 numerous outside the regions of the plantation regime. 

 They are concentrated mainly in the upland regions such 

 as Piedmont, northern Alabama and Mississippi, the 

 Ozark and Ouachita Highlands except in the prairies of 

 Oklahoma and Texas, where they are fairly numerous. 

 The white owners are thickly scattered over all the South, 

 being possibly more concentrated in the upper Piedmont 

 due to the small size of farms. 



It is not to be rashly disputed that the cotton plant 

 is something of a map maker. As cotton has thrived in 

 various soils and areas it has brought about the distribu- 

 tion of races through the movement of slaves with the 



59 Cotton Atlas, p. 12. 



00 C. O. Brannen, Relation of Land Tenure to Plantation Organi- 

 zation, Dept. of Agriculture Bulletin 1269, p. 3. 

 61 Cotton Atlas, p. 13. 



