African American workers returning from picking
African American workers returning from picking cotton, on Alexander Knoxs plantation, Mount Pleasant, SC, c. 1874. The ante-bellum social and labor hierarchy was re-imposed upon landless African Americans within a decade after the Civil War. The idealistic schemes for land distribution faded, as politicians could not face confiscating private property from former rebel planters. Photo by George Barnard
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13123082
Media ID
45382711
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1685px x 1800px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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