The Greatest Theft in American History
In 1920, there were 949,889 Black farmers in America.[1] Our people owned and operated nearly one million farms. We controlled land. We produced food. We built wealth through agriculture. We were economically independent. Today, only 1.3% of America’s farmers are Black.[2] We own just 0.52% of farmland.[3] Over the 20th century, Black farmers lost 90% of their land – 16 million acres stolen through discriminatory lending, legal manipulation, violence, and systemic racism.[4] The data represent a 98% decline in Black farmers.[5]
Ninety-eight percent of Black farmers were eliminated in one century and it was a deliberate, systemic, and systematic destruction of Black wealth, Black independence, and Black power. And the consequences still devastate our community today.
Nothing Is Lost in the Kingdom
When they took our land, they wanted to take our connection to a major source of wealth. They attempted to take our food security. They thought they could take our economic independence. They tried to take the knowledge that had sustained our ancestors through slavery, through Reconstruction, and through Jim Crow. They suppressed the understanding that a person who can grow food can never be fully controlled. They wanted to take the wisdom that land ownership is the foundation of generational wealth. They suppressed the skills that made us producers instead of consumers and creators instead of dependents.
The most disgusting attempt of all was to disconnect our children from their agricultural heritage. Some of today’s Black children have no idea that their great-great-grandparents were master farmers who understood soil, seasons, seeds, and sustainable food production. They do not know that agriculture and promised land is in their blood, their history, their DNA and part of their Kingdom inheritance.
The Land Trust Alliance’s research documents this tragic disconnection. African Americans were drastically separated from farming processes, despite agriculture being central to our ancestral heritage and survival.[6] We went from nearly one million Black-owned farms to virtual erasure in just three generations.
The Biblical Pattern of Land and Legacy
Throughout Scripture, land ownership is directly connected to legacy, blessing, and covenant. When God made promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, those promises involved land. When the Israelites were freed from Egypt, they were headed to land. When Joshua led the people into Canaan, they were claiming their inheritance – and that inheritance was land. Land is still our birthright and inheritance and legacy.
Proverbs 13:22 says, “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” In the biblical context, that inheritance was primarily land – the means of production, the source of food, and the foundation of wealth.
Our ancestors understood the meaning of Proverbs 13:22. That is why they sacrificed everything to purchase land after emancipation. That is why by 1920, despite every obstacle and despite terrorism and discrimination, Black people acquired millions of acres and established hundreds of thousands of farms. They built the biblical pattern of land-based legacy.
It appears that it is lost—the legacy, the knowledge of how to work the land, the knowledge of how to produce food, and how to build wealth through agriculture. But nothing is lost in the Kingdom. This is our time of restoration.
Legacy Restoration
When you enroll your kindergartener in Chosen Ones Academy®’s Agricultural Science Course, you are reconnecting them to their heritage. You are restoring knowledge that was systematically stripped from our community. You are reclaiming ancestral wisdom that sustained our people through the worst oppression in human history.
Recent research published in 2023 emphasizes the significance of agriculture-based learning in early childhood education environments, documenting the multiple benefits of agricultural learning in kindergarten children.[7] A 2024 study on kindergarten farms found that these educational initiatives aim to reinforce or create relationships between nature and future generations by involving children in agricultural settings.[8] This is exactly what our ancestors did – they taught their children to work the land from the earliest age, ensuring the knowledge passed from generation to generation. They thought that post traumatic slave syndrome would permanently separate us from the land because of apathy and disdain toward “cotton picking” and harvesting. We are back now. Your child will learn skills that their ancestors knew by the Spirit of God:
Soil Science: Understanding what makes land productive, how to build healthy soil, how to work with the earth instead of against it. This is knowledge that built wealth for chosen ones for generations.
Crop Rotation and Companion Planting: The agricultural wisdom that allowed our ancestors to produce abundant harvests year after year, which is ancient spiritual knowledge that our people mastered.
Seed Saving and Propagation: The ability to save seeds from one season to plant the next, ensuring continuous production without dependence on external suppliers who may or may not be heirloom seeds. This is the knowledge that created food safety and sovereignty.
Sustainable Farming Practices: Buying land, farming the land, producing your own food, living together on family compounds, putting land in a family trust—creating an ecosystem and sustainability.
The Connection to Identity and Pride
Research shows that when children learn about their cultural heritage, their academic performance improves, their self-esteem increases, and their sense of identity strengthens. The learning experiences must be experiential, tangible, and real, not abstract history lessons one month of the year.
A 2025 study on farm-to-school programs found that these initiatives influence children’s mental model of food and give students a more robust understanding of where food comes from.[9] When your five-year-old plants seeds using techniques their ancestors used, when they harvest vegetables that their great-great-grandparents grew, when they understand that agriculture is their birthright not a burden – a powerful mental model is established.
They learn, I come from people who God promised land. Land and real estate ownership is my birthright. I come from people who God empowered to possess the land and cultivate it for themselves. I come from people who owned land. I come from people who built wealth from the earth. I come from producers, not just consumers. I am powerful.
This is identity restoration that no traditional textbook can provide. This is a cultural connection that transforms how a child sees themselves and their place in the world.
The Economic Dimension of Heritage
One fact omitted from traditional textbooks is the land that was stolen from Black farmers is now worth billions of dollars. The 16 million acres that our ancestors “lost” would be valued at over $300 billion in today’s market.[10] That was an attempt to permanently extract generational wealth from our community. You cannot change what was stolen in the past, but you can change what your child inherits in the future through Kingdom principles. Nothing is lost in the Kingdom.
When your child enrolls in Agricultural Science, they will gain the knowledge to rebuild what was taken through agribusiness and through food and wealth production. They will learn skills that can lead to land ownership, food production businesses, and agribusiness. They will be equipped to reclaim the economic power that agriculture spiritually, physically, and financially represents.
The USDA and multiple research institutions document that Black farmers face ongoing discrimination in lending, support programs, and market access.[11] But research also documents that young Black farmers who receive proper training and support are successfully building profitable agricultural enterprises.
Your kindergartener is learning Kingdom principles and academic skills today that will lead to land ownership and food security tomorrow. They will develop the knowledge that will help your bloodline rebuild the agricultural legacy that was stolen from our community.
Kindergarten, the Critical Age
Proverbs 22:6 instructs, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Early childhood is when identity forms, when skills become foundational, when knowledge shapes lifelong trajectories.
Do not wait until your child is a teenager to teach them about their agricultural heritage-losing critical years. Because of indoctrination and white-washed education, they will have already internalized a consumer mindset. They may have already accepted disconnection from the land which is subliminally rooted in history books. They will have already absorbed the lie that agriculture is something other people do. It is our heritage and we must instill it in them as early as possible.
The Spiritual Mandate
Genesis 2:15 says, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Before the fall, before sin, before any of the brokenness we see in the world today, God’s design for humanity involved working the land. It was our divine purpose.
Enrolling your child in Agricultural Science at Chosen Ones Academy® is an act of spiritual restoration. It will reconnect chosen ones back to God’s original design. It will position them to operate in the dominion and stewardship that the Most High intended from the beginning.
This Is Your Season to Reclaim
You have the opportunity to give your child, your family, and the entire community the knowledge to reclaim what was lost. Every Black child who enrolls in Agricultural Science will plant a seed reconnecting them to God’s original plan and to ancestral wisdom. Enroll your child in Chosen Ones Academy®’s Agricultural Science Course. Reclaim your heritage. Restore your legacy. Rebuild what was stolen.
Will you allow the Most High to increase your territory through agriculture? Or will you allow the disconnection to continue for another generation?
The choice is yours. Enrollment is open now. Click the link to get started.
References
[1] Land Trust Alliance. “There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have America’s black farmers disappeared?” Retrieved from https://landtrustalliance.org/resources/learn/explore/why-have-americas-black-farmers-disappeared
[2] Ibid. “Now only 1.3% of the 3.4 million total farmers are black.”
[3] Ibid. “Owning 0.52% of farmland.”
[4] American Bar Association. (2023). “The Contemporary Relevance of Historic Black Land Loss.” Retrieved from https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-rights/archive/contemporary-relevance-historic-black-land-loss/
[5] LISEP (Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity). (2024). “Into Thin Heir: America’s ‘Legal’ Purloining of Black Farmland.” Retrieved from https://www.lisep.org/content/into-thin-heir-americas-legal-purloining-of-black-farmland
[6] Land Trust Alliance. “There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920.”
[7] Fadlillah, M., & Oktavianingsih, E. (2023). The importance of agricultural knowledge in early childhood education: a scoping review. Golden Age: Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, 7(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.14421/jga.2023.71-05
[8] Paffarini, C., Torquati, B., Sannipoli, M., Fabbri, A., & Bartolini, F. (2024). Social farming and educational needs: how kindergarten farms could fill a gap. Agricultural and Food Economics, 12, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-024-00310-0
[9] Leake, L., et al. (2025). Impacts of farm to school on children’s perception of food. BMC Public Health, 25(1). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11963399/
[10] FoodPrint. (2024). “Black Land Loss in the United States.” Retrieved from https://foodprint.org/issues/black-land-loss-in-the-united-states/
[11] USDA. “The Decline of Black Farming in America.” Retrieved from https://www.usccr.gov/files/historical/1982/82-018.pdf