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

With the abolition of slavery after the civil war, plantation owners in the south were forced to find a new source of labor for their fields. They found a way to do this by exploiting the poor, both black and white, as a source of cheap labor. Thus began the era of the sharecropper in Mississippi.

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