The colored people can rent land, it is true, and many of them do rent many acres, and find themselves poorer at the end of the year than at the beginning, because they are charged more a year for rent per acre than the land would bring at auction sale.
Douglass discusses the economic struggles of African American tenants who find themselves in a cycle of poverty despite renting land.
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