African American workers preparing cotton
African American workers preparing cotton for gins, on Alexander Knoxs plantation, Mount Pleasant, SC, 1874. A white man weighs cotton bundles. After the Civil war, landless African American, no longer enslaved by law, were coerced into one-sided and exploitive labor contracts on large plantations. Photo by George Barnard
Picture No
13123083
Media ID
45382714
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2602px x 2700px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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