Knowlton Plantation Perthshire Mississippi Delta Mississippi 1939 caption…

Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi 1939

Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Weighing and Checking of bags of cotton 1939…

Weighing and Checking of bags of cotton 1939

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Mexican worker seasonal labor contracted for by planters…

Mexican worker, seasonal labor contracted for by planters, weighing and checking off bags of cotton by wagon in field on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi 1939

Mexican worker, seasonal labor contracted for by planters, weighing and checking off bags of cotton by wagon in field on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Mexican woman seasonal labor contracted for by planters…

Mexican woman, seasonal labor contracted for by planters, picking cotton on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi 1939

Mexican woman, seasonal labor contracted for by planters, picking cotton on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Mexican laborers on wagonload of cotton in field…

Mexican laborers on wagonload of cotton in field on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi 1939

Mexican laborers on wagonload of cotton in field on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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I love History…so I am on a roll tonight…

This Negro client of Dixon’s Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins

This is from the Library of Congress..on Sharecroppers. 1930s

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