Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field in Savannah, Georgia. This photo was taken between 1867 and 1890. Because early photos from Rusk County are few and far between, photographs from other parts of the American South help illustrate what life was like on plantations in the second half of the nineteenth-century. Library of Congress photograph (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015650292/).
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