Photo of sharecroppers cotton picking ca. 1880

This is a photograph of African-American cotton pickers in Georgia’s New South economy. Many of these workers lived on the property of white landowners and in many ways acted and lived in the same way as they had in Antebellum Georgia–often in the same slave shacks as their enslaved ancestors. 

African-American cotton pickers from 1880. From the Georgia Historical Society Collection of Stereographs
“Cotton Picking No. 3.” Ca. 1880. From the Georgia Historical Society Collection of Stereographs.

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