Cotton picker
Until the introduction of machinery human labor were (often slave ) as cotton pickers to harvest of cotton used. Agricultural equipment or vehicles for mechanized cotton harvesting are known as cotton harvesters . Manual harvesting by human cotton pickers is still widespread in some emerging and developing countries.
In the 19th century, the slave labor of the then African American cotton pickers differed on the tobacco and cotton plantations of the southern states of the USA from the earlier established slave labor on Caribbean sugar plantations . The cotton slaves in the southern states were born there as slaves or came through the Atlantic slave trade until the ban on slavery in 1808.
A book that is also well-known in Germany is the American novel Onkel Toms Hütte , which was first published from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852 under the title “Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly “was published in a newspaper of the abolitionists , the opponents of slavery at the time. The novel depicts the fate of a number of African American slaves and their respective owners in the United States of America in the 1840s .
The word "cotton pickers" ( cotton picker ) is also used as a derogatory term for blacks.
See also
- Plantation
- Slavery in the United States
- The Cotton Pickers , novel by B. Traven from 1925
