The Illiterate Inventor Who Changed Farming Henry Blair, a Black farmer who couldn't read or write, patented the mechanical corn planter in 1834 and a cotton planter in 1836, becoming only the second Black man to receive a U.S. patent. #BlackHistory #Inventors #Agriculture #AmericanHistory Henry Blair, Black inventors, agricultural inventions, corn planter, cotton planter, U.S. patent, 19th century innovation, farming technology, Black history, American inventors | Black History Unfiltered

7.4K views · 100 reactions | This tenant house was associated with cotton farming. John Norman and his wife Carrie Potts Norman lived in the Alexander Farm Tenant House in the late 1930s and early 1940s. #TenantFarmers #Farmers #History #HistoryBeforeUs #HistoryLovers #Preservation #HistoricPreservation | History Before Us | Facebook

13K views · 92 reactions | Can you understand how the present global world order came to exist by understanding the history of the cotton trade? Come, find out. #JaipurLitFest2020 | Jaipur Literature Festival | Facebook