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New York: [ca. 1940s]. Eight-panel brochure, folds out to overall size of 9 x 15 inches. Minor wear and toning. A sobering and informative informational brochure on the plight of sharecroppers and their families, issued by the National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. (NSF) founded in the mid-1930s to provide financial assistance.....
Boston: 1937. 18pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Mild wear to wrappers. A rare pamphlet focused on the plight of sharecropping containing a "discussion of the methods suggested for the alleviation of the situation." The author, Dr. Robert C. Dexter of the American Unitarian Association, states the purpose of the work.....
Westmoreland County, PA: January 23, 1872. [2]pp. on a single folio sheet of lined paper. Old folds, minor wear and dust soiling. Very good. An unusual sharecropping agreement from Pennsylvania during the Reconstruction period, in which a farmer named Ross Wilson leases the entire farm of Col. J.B. Oliver on.....
Anderson County, S.C. February 10, 1898. Three manuscript documents, totaling [6]pp., on matching folio lined paper, with manuscript docketing. Old folds, minor fold separations to one document, overall minor wear. A trio of separate sharecropping agreements between South Carolina landowner M.J. Fleming and tenant farmers named Emery Wilson, C.C. Brown.....