Child Sharecropper Cultivating Cotton New Madrid County 1938

In 1938, a child in New Madrid County, Missouri cultivates cotton on a sharecroppers land. This image illustrates the agricultural practices prevalent in Southeast Missouri during that time. Sharecropping was a common system where families worked a portion of land in exchange for a share of the crops, often involving children in farming duties.

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