Enslaved Laborers in Cotton Field

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An illustration depicts enslaved laborers working in a southern cotton field. After the Civil War the most important issue to white landowners was that many of their best cotton fields lay in disrepair and their cotton field labor had been emancipated.

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Enslaved Laborers in Cotton Field

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