Child Gathering Sweet Potatoes Laurel Mississippi 1938

A child of a sharecropper gathers sweet potatoes in Laurel, Mississippi, circa November 1938. This image stems from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection. During this time, sharecropping was a common practice in the South, where families worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.

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