Up until the 1980s, most African Americans in Haywood County lived out in the rural areas, on farms. Some were landowners, but most were tenant farmers working for some portion of the cotton crop – three fourths, two thirds, or one half. The poorest families worked on the halves. These families didn’t own mules or ...
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