Ex-slaves, working in a gang on a cotton ?
Ex-slaves, working in a gang on a cotton plantation with a nearby overseer in 1875, ten years after emancipation. Many ex-slaves preferred the relative independence of share cropping to gang labor, 1897
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10658614
Media ID
45206292
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3000px x 2077px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Blacks Chopping Cropping Crops Emancipation Freed Freedman Hoeing Nearby Occupational Overseer Plantation Plantations Preferred Relative Share Slaves
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