Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Mississippi Delta, 1939. (27/32)

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Mississippi Delta, 1939.

Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation.

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