| Collection |
Photograph, FSA, Louisiana |
| Photographer |
FSA |
| Date of photo |
2010 |
| Description |
Photograph, FSA, author: unknown - article The Shreveport Times, 1979 reprint. |
| Year Range from |
1940 |
| Year range to |
1940 |
| Object ID |
00001.1.3 |
| Object Name |
Photograph, FSA, 1940 |
| Place |
Louisiana |
| Provenance |
Post Civil War ushered in profound changes in American society. The peonage farm system varied across the South, and differed from one parish to the next. Sharecropping and tenancy transcended racial boundaries, treated all races unfairly. Many impoverished Louisianians endured a hard life of hoeing, plowing, and picking cotton.
The sharecropping system was an arrangement between the sharecropper and landowner, usually in the form of a written contract or signed agreement. Sharecropping or tenancy on plantations tracts and farms became the primary means of support for many rural southerners well into the twentieth century.
However, many Creoles farmed and labored on lands that have been in their families for generations. For some Cane River Creoles, sharecropping was a community system of farming. One which directly and indirectly shaped many of the Cane River Creole customs and traditions that remains in practice.
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| Title |
Photograph, FSA, Louisiana |
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