From Slavery to Sharecropping: The Arthur Family and the Legacy of Forced Labor
The Arthur family, particularly Scott Arthur and his stepsons Irving and Herman Arthur, were deeply affected by the sharecropping system in the post-emancipation South. Scott Arthur was a tenant farmer who worked the land of white landowner John Henry Hodges in Paris, Texas. His stepsons, Irving and Herman, were born into this system and became
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