young or old was exploited. Kid Johnny Cash & his younger brother worked beside their cotton sharecropper parents.
In sweatshops they actually charged women if they broke a sewing needle, and for use of the chair they sat in to work.
I've posted this before, the Redlegs of Barbados. When I saw a photo from this series there in the late 80s I couldn't believe it. The dating was easy based on the dress of the manager whites, 1920s- early 1930s. But I never saw 20th c. men wearing burlap bag tunics. The early medieval era but not the early 1900s. The photo was on a table at Sunbury plantation, with 'redlegs' written in ink across the front. I asked the guide and she pointed the direction where they lived, that's all. We looked for a while, asked, but then stopped. It's mainly St. John's Parish, east coast of Barbados I later learned.
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