Christmas has always been a meaningful time of the year for African Americans in Haywood County. When the local economy was primarily agricultural and cotton was the reigning monarch, Christmas signaled the end of the crop year. Tenant farm families strove to have finished picking the crop, settled with the landowner, and hopefully cleared some ...
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