Post-Reconstruction Black Economic Life through Labor, and Plantation Work, U.S. South and Caribbean, 1890s-1900s
African American stereoview archive documenting Black labor in cotton, rice, turpentine, phosphate, fruit, and plantation agriculture across the post Reconstruction South and Caribbean, 1890s-1900s, showcasing how emancipation gave way to a new labor order structured by low wages, racial control, export agriculture, and restricted economic mobility. Images show how Black.....
