Adults Seated, Facing Camera, Child Playing in Barrel in Foreground, Plantation Setting Digital History ID 2641

Adults Seated, Facing Camera, Child Playing in Barrel in Foreground, Plantation Setting

Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Media type: photograph
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Annotation: After slavery was abolished, many former slaves became sharecroppers on plantations. Sharecroppers were allowed to work the land, often working for a portion of the crop they produced.
Year: 1880

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