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Listen: The Latin ProgramThe Jefferson County Freedmen's Contracts
Below are photographs of people and scenes from Jefferson County plantations during the era when sharecropping and tenant farming were prevalent, roughly from the end of the Civil War to the 1950s. Many of these photographs were taken long after the contracts in this collection were written, but the methods and tools used by Florida sharecroppers and tenant farmers changed very little over the years. The identities of individuals in the photographs are indicated when they are known.
Ellen Thompson, former Slave of Martha Margaret Murray May of Jefferson County, Florida (1880s)
Image Number: RC13275
Weighing cotton at the planter's home, Jefferson County, Florida (c. 1911)
Image Number: RC05498
African American woman making soap in Jefferson County (c.1910)
Image Number: PR00814
Black women doing washing - Jefferson County, Florida. (1880s)
Image Number: RC02216
Laborers cultivating cotton fields by hand - Jefferson County, Florida (nd)
Image Number: RC02220
Laborers in the fields picking cotton - Jefferson County, Florida (1890s)
Image Number: RC02221
Portrait of Asa May, husband of Margaret Martha Murray May (nd).
Image Number:PR05658
Daughters of Charles and Mary Taylor of Jefferson County (nd)
Image Number:PR05666
Portrait of Spierin Buchanan Alexander (1834-1897)
Image Number:PR00814
Main house of the El Destino Plantation
Image Number:RC19238
Taylor Plantation
Image Number:N038153
Major B.W. Bellamy in front of the Bellamy Plantation House (1891)
Image Number:PR08623
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