African American Sharecropper Photographs Documenting Cotton Labor in the Jim Crow South, Circa 1910s–1920s
Two original photographs documenting African American sharecropping labor in the rural South during the Jim Crow era, when cotton agriculture remained central to the racial and economic order of the post-Reconstruction United States. The images capture Black agricultural workers engaged in cotton harvesting under the tenant farming and sharecropping systems.....
