Georgia Sharecroppers: Historic Photos Reveal an Era of Poverty and Hardship

Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, landowners in the South were forced to find a new source of labor for their fields. They found a way to continue their cash crops by exploiting the poor, both black and white, as a source of cheap labor. Thus began the era of the sharecropper in Georgia.

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