White privilege. Children working in a cotton factory, Lancaster 1907.
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My grandma dropped out of school around the 5th grade in the 30’s to help her dad pick cotton on sharecropper land. Went on to work in a cotton mill for years and finally became a cosmetologist, while raising 4 daughters. White privilege.
Interesting tid bit about white share croppers, many of them lived in conditions that were worse than slaves on plantations, housing, food and clothing was often superior to that of share croppers because of extremely limited resources. They were free though so that's definitely priceless. If you evaluate photos from the era you'll see the disparity
I’ve got a great one somewhere of the entire family smiling in a cotton field in rags, yeah she told about making dresses out of burlap flour sacks (I guess the flour company printed a pattern on the inside b/c they knew people were making clothes with it) and being elated to get an orange for Christmas.
Four daughters... that poor husband.