Why I'm Going to Pick Cotton for 8 Hours Tomorrow..and yes its 2012… – Afroculinaria
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Tomorrow on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, I am going to go to a Virginia plantation that's around 390 years old. I will pick cotton for about 8 hours and hopefully it will add up to 250 pounds--an average day's work for a 35 year old Black man, like myself, on a Southern cotton plantation. From…
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