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1 Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman Hagood, Margaret Jarman W. W. Norton & Co. New York, New York, USA 1977 Trade Paperback Very Good, No Jacket as Issued 0393008169 / 9780393008166 BC2 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black, brown and white wraps with white, black and brown lettering with only very minor shelf wear. The observations recorded by a young Georgia-born sociologist of how Southern tenant farm women lived. They bore many of the heaviest social and economic burdens of tenant farming, a system that encompassed over 10 million people and produced, at great cost, cottonand and tobacco in the South. The book resulted from interviews and is one of the best documentaries of its time and a major source of primary material for the social historian. This is a reprint of the 1939 edition published by the University of North Carolina Press. With a new introduction by Anne Firor Scott and illustrated with photographs by Marion Post and Dorthea Lange. 252p. SCW00769  Price: 5.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart