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Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They are still living under very primitive conditions on the plantation

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1937 Feb.
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  1. Alabama
  2. Gees Bend
  3. Nitrate Negatives
  4. United States
  5. Wilcox County

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