Sharecroppers’ Shed

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A corn crib and tool shed used by sharecroppers is pictured in Cobb County, circa 1890. In 1880 sharecroppers worked 32 percent of the farms in Georgia; thirty years later, that percentage had risen to 37 percent.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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