Cotton-Picking Time in the South
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A 1902 magazine article by Anne Hobson, illustrated by A. B. Frost, describing the autumn cotton-picking season in the American South. It combines scenic description of the fall countryside with a long monologue in imitated Black dialect by a cotton picker, then describes wagons of cotton bales going to the depot and Saturday town visits by pickers. The piece is a romanticized, condescending period portrait that uses racial slurs and caricatured dialect, and it offers little technical information about cotton or textiles.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- January 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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