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Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

In the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, portrayed the lives of three sharecropper families in the South during the Depression, documenting the tyranny of the tenant farming system that enslaved some nine million tenants in 1936. Fifty years later, Maharidge and Williamson have revisited, photographed, and interviewed the surviving members and descendants of the families shown in that book.

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.