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Chapter 1

Life After Slavery

A black and white photograph of cotton workers weighing their cotton. The white man is adding the weights to the scale.
No matter how good account you kept, you had to go by their account... because he was always right and you were always wrong if there was a difference.
Give us our own land and we take care ourselves; but without land, the old masters can hire us or starve us, as they please.

Related Exhibition

An ad for to take people from Lexington to Kansas. The header of the ad is in bolded and large text at the top.
Harper's Weekly page spread about the “The Liberian Ship ‘Azor’ from April 20th, 1878
5 oval portraits of the residents. Each woman is wearing a hat, posed in a camera.