5 year old in the Cotton field
Yes, it happened
Southern Families were dirt poor.
They did not own land, they were sharecroppers
All hands were essential when the Harvest came
Back-breaking hard work but it was for survival
Most kids would average about 10 to 20 lb of cotton a day
That was back in the early 1900s
Believe it or not but sharecropping (a form of indentured servitude) still exists. Read the book, “Same Kind of Different As Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Moore was the sharecropper; he left the plantation, wandered around, then got help and accepted Jesus in the 1980s or so). In the late 90s he and Hall returned to where he had been a sharecropper in Mississippi and there was still sharecropping on the farm.
“These are obviously albino black children!” – BLM
MY GRANDPARENTS WERE “SHARECROPPERS”. WE LOST OUR LAND TO DAMN “PEOPLE HATING” “TRASH YANKEES”(MY MOMS SAYING) AFTER THE WAR… F%C*IN CARPETBAGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being a “yankee” (born on Long Island, NY) I agree, KOYOTE, especially since I am likely descended from Indentured servants myself (part Irish and Scots-Irish). I don’t give a damned what someone’s skin color is–slavery, indentured, sharecropper, whatever–is WRONG and is of the synagogue of Satan!
ah.its more white privilege again.
We all are slaves to someone .