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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Growing Cotton
Additional Description: Cotton provided Jackson’s profit. However, pork and approximately 300 acres of corn, raised and processed by enslaved hands, sustained the died of everyone at the Hermitage. Jackson’s enslaved laborers also planted, tended, and harvested a diversity of crops that fed animals and produced supplies for the plantation. These included wheat, millet, oats, sorghum, and hemp. This painting by Thomas Waterman Wood shows slaves tending corn on a plantation near Nashville.
Submitted: February 10, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192331
File Size: 0.261 Megabytes

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