Georgia ArchivesUnited States, Georgia, Ben Hill County, Fitzgerald, 31.71491, -83.252651896/1898Farm workers, pictured circa 1897, pose with their cotton harvest in Fitzgerald, the seat of Ben Hill County. In the decades following the Civil War, cotton fields were worked predominantly by Black sharecroppers.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/Vanishing GeorgiaBusinessEconomy--GeorgiaWomen in Cotton FieldStillImage