Cotton Patch Life in Tennessee
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A 1905 magazine article by Clifton Johnson describing rural life among Black cotton farmers near Memphis, Tennessee. It covers cotton planting and picking, rents and debt, cabins and roads, recollections of an elderly man and his wife about the 1833 meteor shower and the Civil War, a debating society, and barbecues. It is illustrated with the author's photographs of cabins, fieldwork, a well, and two women at a spinning wheel; it has no weaving content beyond that image.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1905
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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