Short Paper 2
Elizabeth Pitts was born in Leflore county Mississippi, on October 24, 1928. Pitts earliest memories from growing up was that she was born, raised, and went to school on the same plantation. Miss Pitts would go on to say that it was the same plantation that her child was born on. Then the interview said ( how did share cropping work back then?) (scales, Mausiki s) Pitts stated that every two weeks they would give them funds. Funds is money that you get at the begging of each year to buy crops and clothes for work. The store where they would go to buy crops and clothing from was called the commissary store.Miss Pitts said that when she was workin she would only get paid 3 dollars a day but if you were working on your own field then you would have to plant your cotton the chop your cotton when it came time to pick the cotton you would pick it then they would take it to the gen they would gen it and they would get a bail of seeds the bail of seeds is worth 5 or 6 dollars then at the end of the year they would sell the cotton most times you would get money back from selling cotton then there are times you didn’t get any money back if you didn’t get any money back the boss man would give you money to get through the winter but you had to pay it back the next year. The interviewer asked “did people ever get suspicious?) Miss Pitts said that back then if people did get suspicious there wasn’t much they could do besides move and people would move all the time but as they moved other people would move in. Miss Pitts said that they rasied there food they had hogs and chickens duck and cow
Elizabeth Pitts was born in Leflore county Mississippi, on October 24, 1928. Pitts earliest memories from growing up was that she was born, raised, and went to school on the same plantation. Miss Pitts would go on to say that it was the same plantation that her child was born on. Then the interview said ( how did share cropping work back then?) (scales, Mausiki s) Pitts stated that every two weeks they would give them funds. Funds is money that you get at the begging of each year to buy crops and clothes for work. The store where they would go to buy crops and clothing from was called the commissary store.Miss Pitts said that when she was workin she would only get paid 3 dollars a day but if you were working on your own field then you would have to plant your cotton the chop your cotton when it came time to pick the cotton you would pick it then they would take it to the gen they would gen it and they would get a bail of seeds the bail of seeds is worth 5 or 6 dollars then at the end of the year they would sell the cotton most times you would get money back from selling cotton then there are times you didn’t get any money back if you didn’t get any money back the boss man would give you money to get through the winter but you had to pay it back the next year. The interviewer asked “did people ever get suspicious?) Miss Pitts said that back then if people did get suspicious there wasn’t much they could do besides move and people would move all the time but as they moved other people would move in. Miss Pitts said that they rasied there food they had hogs and chickens duck and cow