sharecropper

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Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • tmkrausse1833 said:
    What I see in this photo is a group of Southern Black Sharecroppers representative of the the early 1900's.
  • artpease said:
    I have never seen cotton grown nor chopped [weeds hoed out] but where are the cotton plants and the weeds they are chopping???
  • aware health said:
    I have both seen it and done it, and you're right. I think they're breaking up dirt clods, or maybe hoeing out some of those roots and stuff. (Not that that's any more pleasant.)
  • goforit52 said:
    They paid with their lives to move this country to its present place.

Farm Security Administration borrower, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Elfin Hand said:
    this is mesmeric
  • ftmsh said:
    yeah dont know what it is about this but i'll agree it's mesmerising
  • joe.cabral123 said:
    Very good picture. It tells a story.
  • J. Colerangle said:
    beautiful man
  • rik vandenhende said:
    Beautiful image Love it I

Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • skillful north said:
    Movie star looks.
  • random letters said:
    Seriously. So handsome.
  • skillful north said:
    www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/childlit/1930s/index.html Here are more pictures of the family.
  • fdecomite said:
    great picture from a great book...
  • Acoustic Bubble said:
    Eternal.