Negro Cotton Picker

DESCRIPTION: Composite fragment of cotton-picking items: "Way down in de bottom, when de cotton's all rotten, Can't pick a hundred a day. Aught for aught, and figger for figger, All for de white man an' none for de nigger."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: work hardtimes discrimination
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 211, "Negro Cotton Picker" (1 fragment)
File: Br3211

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