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Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agee, James, 1909-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agee, James, 1909-1955--Travel--Alabama.
- Agee, James.
- Evans, Walker, 1903-1975--Travel--Alabama.
- Evans, Walker.
- Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955.
- Cotton farmers--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Cotton farmers.
- Tenant farmers--Alabama--Hale County--Social conditions.
- Tenant farmers.
- Farm tenancy--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Farm tenancy.
- Cotton farmers--Alabama--Hale County--Social conditions.
- Rural conditions.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Travel.
- Hale County (Ala.)--Rural conditions.
- Hale County (Ala.).
- Alabama--Rural conditions.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Hale County.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2013]
- Summary:
- On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
- Contents:
- Business
- Shelter
- Food
- Clothing
- Work
- Picking season
- Education
- Leisure
- Health
- Appendix 1. On Negroes
- Appendix 2. Landowners.
- ISBN:
- 1612192122
- 9781612192123
- OCLC:
- 813931047
- Publisher Number:
- 99954691911
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