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re: Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
Posted on 6/6/22 at 11:21 am to hawkeye007
Posted on 6/6/22 at 11:21 am to hawkeye007
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my grandfather grew up a sharecropper in morganza before ww2. I have a photo of him with a mule team in a field in 1940. my white priviledge is overwhelming sometimes.
I want to see it... My grandfather had a mule team too... Only I don't have any pictures...
HE always used to say.. "When I was your age I had four mules pulling my middlebuster."
That would have made it 1924...
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Posted on 6/6/22 at 11:32 am to WhuckFistle
My mom and her sisters picked cotton. $0.05 / pound.
Her parents were sharecroppers until her mom put her foot down and told my grandfather to figure out another way to make a living for them.
Her parents were sharecroppers until her mom put her foot down and told my grandfather to figure out another way to make a living for them.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 11:37 am to WhuckFistle
That’s a big arse boll of cotton!!! Is todays bolls that big?
Posted on 6/6/22 at 11:59 am to WhuckFistle
My Dad told me stories about his great grandfather who gambled on the Mississippi River Boats and was involved in several gunfights. He never picked any cotton. Moms side were immigrants from Sicily, never heard any stories about picking cotton.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 12:51 pm to WWII Collector
i am sending you an email with the pic
Posted on 6/6/22 at 12:52 pm to WhuckFistle
My mom and dad ,both white, did in the '30s and '40s. Still own my mom's family property where she picked. It's been in the family since the Civil War at the latest.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 12:56 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandfather picked cotton as a child. Joined the Navy at 17 in 1943 to escape generational poverty.
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