Sharecropper Cultivating Cotton New Madrid County 1938

A sharecropper cultivates cotton in New Madrid County, Missouri, in May 1938. This image documents the agricultural practices of Southeast Missouri during that period. Sharecropping was a common system in which landowners provided land and tools while workers received a share of the crop. This arrangement shaped rural labor dynamics in the region.

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