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by 9rx 203 days ago
> Back then, the landlord who had the "big house" wasn't called a farmer, but often a "Lord" or "Master".

Feudalism in North America, in the 1900s? Your geography and timelines are way off.

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, slavery and sharecropping were primary forms of agricultural labor.

Those are far closer to medieval feudal peasantry than 20th century industrial labor, regardless of the lack of an official hereditary aristocracy in the US.

Sharecropping was very common. And a hard way to earn a subsistence living.