Basically;
Slaves were forced onto undesirable land cause it what was left
This is not so accurate--heavily Black rural areas often correspond to areas with particularly good soils because they were the most hospitable to plantation agriculture.
Broadly yea, but they didn’t own that land. The only land slaves could actually own after the war (at least in South Carolina) was generally swampy or sea islands. All the good soil was owned by white planters who forced them back into sharecropping slavery
