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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division
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H. Paul Douglass, Christian Reconstruction in the South (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1909)
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| The Rural South |
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Wages in the rural south, when wages were paid, averaged about 75¢ a day. A minister from Alabama commented, "The Negro farm hand gets his compensation hardly more than the mule he plows; that is his board and shelter. Some mules fare better than Negroes."
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| Image ID: | 1168435 |
Title: | Agricultural peasant of the black belt. |
Source: | Christian reconstruction in the South. |
Name: | Douglass, H. Paul -- (Harlan Paul) (1871-1953 ) - Author |
Published: | [c1909] |
Location: | General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Subjects: | African American agricultural laborers |
| American Missionary Association |
| Southern States -- Economic conditions |
| Women peasants |
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Keywords: | Rural Life |
| Southern States |
| Women - United States |
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