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Farm Life In Old Mississip A Northern Farmer Era Letter
A Shenandoah Iowa reader prints a long letter from a former Shenandoah resident now in Monroe County Mississippi. He describes land prices, crops, soil, and the contrast between cotton farming and corn in the South. He notes how northern families fared, the pest crawfish, and the harsh view of Black labor and race relations. He explains sharecropping and rations, and hints at mechanization and social changes on this old southern farm.
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Shenandoah
Iowa
Brewer
Monroe County
Miss
Maldon
Anyowa
Page County
Kansas
Illinois
George
Greenville