The Cotton-Picking Season
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A short 1894 article by an anonymous missionary in the American South describing the cotton-picking season among African American communities. It discusses how families, including preachers and teachers, leave town for the fields during hard times, the drop in school attendance, and the moral conditions of the cotton camps. It also touches on drinking, debt to grocers, and fear surrounding public debate on lynching. It concerns social conditions, not textile production or weaving.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- November 1894
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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