Name: African American laborers processing cotton through cotton gin, on Alexander Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant, SC, 1874. After the Civil war, landless African American, no longer enslaved by law, were coerced into one-sided and exploitive labor contracts on large plantation. Another alternative was the equally exploitive share-cropping system, but offered Freedmen greater distance from overseers and regimented gang labor. Photo by George Barnard (BSLOC_2018_5_79) - SuperStock
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African American laborers processing cotton through cotton gin, on Alexander Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant, SC, 1874. After the Civil war, landless African American, no longer enslaved by law, were coerced into one-sided and exploitive labor contracts on large plantation. Another alternative was the equally exploitive share-cropping system, but offered Freedmen greater distance from overseers and regimented gang labor. Photo by George Barnard (BSLOC_2018_5_79)

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