Black and white photo of 11 year old girl with cotton sack in 1916.

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   D. Elisabeth Glassco (deglassco@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:34:00 JST D. Elisabeth Glassco

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   Cotton was king, and the lives of sharecroppers and tenant farmers revolved around its harvest. It was backbreaking work, with little reward and fewer options for escape. For generations, they remained, not by choice but by circumstance, trapped in the feudal economics of sharecropping and the relentless grip of Jim Crow laws and the vicious coercion it spawned.

   Image: 11-year-old girl picking cotton in Oklahoma, 1916.

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