Family
Picking Cotton in the fields near Savannah, Georgia, stereograph, c.
1867.
(Negative #50482, Collection of the New-York Historical Society)
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Under the sharecropping system, which emerged as the dominant labor system in the rural South, black families rented individual plots of land. The system placed a premium on utilizing the labor of all members of the family.
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2003