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Cotton on porch of a sharecropper's home, Maria plantation, Arkansas
Cotton sits on the porch of a sharecropper's home, waiting to be collected and sold by the White farm owner. Black sharecroppers grow and harvest cotton, then the White landowners take the cotton into town and sell it. After "calculating the debts"…
Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia
African American boy behind a plow in rural Georgia, from 1937
Son of Negro Sharecropper in the field
A Negro sharecropper's son "worming" tobacco leaves on a sharecropping tobacco farm in Wake County, North Carolina.
Old time cabin, Virginia
African American family pictured outside their cabin in Virginia, c. 1900
Digging and picking peanuts by hand
Woman and children picking peanuts by hand on a farm in rural Virginia.