Cotton Sharecroppers

African Americans - social conditions in southern states, Cotton" . Since the earliest days of colonial America , the relationship between cotton and African American experiences has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields . While a pervasive racial animosity and a fear of a black migratory invasion caused white northerns to certain blacks in the south. African American cotton pickers' day on the 4th Monday in October is called " Cotton Monday" and it recognizes Americans of African descent who raised and picked cotton during slavery and Jim Crow, which served as the foundation of the development of American's economic system.