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This article is about the cruel world of the Deep South that existed in the Twenties and Thirties. It was an agrarian fiefdom where generations of White planters and factory owners practiced the most un-American system of exploitation and feudalism that developed and was perpetuated from the chaos wrought by the Civil War and Reconstruction. It was a nasty place where the working people of both races labored under conditions of peonage and bone-crushing poverty with no hope in sight.

The six-year-old girl pictured above worked in a shrimp processing plant.

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Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)

Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)

Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)

Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)

Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)

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