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• About Peonage: Chain gang records have genealogical value

  Chain gang, Library of Congress Chain gangs originated in Georgia almost fifty years after the Civil War and were the second type of ou...

• About Peonage: In the voice of a sharecropper, John L. Hancox (1904-1992)

  Raggedy, Raggedy Are We is one of the songs of John L. Hancox (1904-1992) who knew about the life of a poor cotton farmer all too well.  I ...

• About Peonage: My family, my people, and peonage

  Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC), Delano, Jack, photographer, 1939 After Slavery Slave master...

• About Peonage: Antoinette Harrell, modern-day Harriet Tubman

  Nothing But Love: The family on the Modern Day Plantation give Antoinette Harrell a gift of love a shirt they created to express their l...

• About Peonage: African American genealogical records yet to be unearthed

  Asylum records in local parish and county courthouses are an important genealogical resource.  The most brutal and harshest conditions that ...

• About Peonage: Discovery of peonage records in courthouse attic of Koscuisko, MS

  In Peonage letter leads Harrell to Oprah Winfrey's childhood home , we presented a letter genealogist and peonage researcher, Antoinette Har...