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Black women and men hoe sugar cane in Louisiana

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Is part of the Clifton Johnson Photograph CollectionPublished opposite page 51 in Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley, by Clifton Johnson.Black men and women hoe rows of sugar cane in a large field in Louisiana. An overseer on a mule watches them.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Agriculture
  3. Farms
  4. Hoes
  5. Sugarcane

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