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"This will hit the very poorest of farmers hardest, and in particular tenant farmers who'll not be able to afford the rent, and within a year we might be seeing people evicted because of that."

He was the grandson of former slaves and the youngest of 10 children in a family of Alabama tenant farmers.

If tenant farmers paid a fee equal to one year's net value of the land, it earned them a seven-year lease.

The famine heightened tensions between native Irish tenant farmers and the British ruling class, ultimately putting forces in motion that would lead to Irish independence by the early 20th century.

Irish farmland was still owned by the English at this time in history, and the tenant farmers who paid to work the land had virtually nothing, even before this tragic happening.