Three women and one man hoeing in field.

Three women and one man hoeing in field.

William Edgar Burghardt Du Bois (Collector)

1899 or 1900

The image depicts three women tending to the fields, and a lone man . It is counter-intuitive to think that the women would be doing the harder, manual labor, but this was common during this era for African Americans. We saw this frequently during the book "The Color Purple". Celie and Nettie tending to the fields even at a young age, with only minimal help from the men, except Harpo later in the book.

Alex Titus

Du Bois, W.E.B. Three Women and One Man Hoeing in Field. 1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. Three Women One Man Hoeing in Field. 247th ed. Vol. 3. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Library of Congress. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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African American Life in Georgia

Photograph on Gelatin Silver

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