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Red Clay in Alabama
Beals, Carleton | April 8, 1936 issue

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The author says that it is raining in Alabama, all through the black belt-sluices of it day after day. The unpainted tenant farmer shacks totter forlornly on the steep sides of deeply eroded fields or in red mud on the edge of loblolly swamps beyond the ragged stalks of last year's cotton crop-the crop that during pickers' strike brought murder to a dozen counties. Alabama is still in the grip of the old plantation system, with its barely camouflaged feudalism and serfdom, and the effect of the depression, the temporary collapse of monopoly capitalism, has been worse in this colonial fringe of the nation than in many a truly industrial region.

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TENANT farmers; FARMERS; PICKERS (Weaving); FEUDALISM; CAPITALISM; ALABAMA; UNITED States
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