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Title: Cotton field laborers (late 19th century)
Date: Late 19th century (approx.)
Type: Photograph
Identifier: AAHA-0001
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Rights: [Public domain / citation pending]

Historical photograph documenting agricultural labor in the late 19th century

Cotton field laborers, late 19th century.

Description

This photograph documents agricultural labor in the late nineteenth century. It is preserved here as part of the African American Historical Archive’s foundational phase: Slavery through Reconstruction (1619–1877) and its immediate aftermath.

Context Note

The image does not provide names, wages, or consent. What it presents as ordinary—Black labor as background—is itself historical evidence.

We preserve this record to keep historical memory visible and intact, and to hold the documented lives behind the archive with seriousness rather than distance.

Citation

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