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But in the Delta, the past lingered, heavy as the summer air. But in the Delta, the past lingered, heavy as the summer air. It was a region shaped by cotton and race, by migration and mechanization, by struggle and survival. Its people carried its story with them, whether they stayed in the fields or sought new lives in distant cities.

Image: Black American cotton plantation workers, hired as day laborers, walking next to cotton field, Clarksdale, August 1940.. Wolcott, Marion Post.

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