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Photograph of laborers harvesting a bean crop in coastal Georgia, circa 1890. Following their emancipation from slavery during the Civil War, African American agricultural workers received assistance in negotiating contracts from the Freedmen's Bureau, which functioned in Georgia from 1865 to 1870.
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Keywords

  1. African American Agricultural Laborers
  2. African American Men
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. Agricultural Laborers
  6. Agriculture
  7. Baskets
  8. Beans
  9. Crops
  10. Georgia
  11. Harvesting
  12. Trees
  13. Women
  14. Women Agricultural Laborers

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