Originally Posted by gman
There was an awful lot of white folks that picked cotton back in the day. My mother had 14 brothers and sisters just because of that.

Yep, my great grandmother was one of 18 kids. She lived until I was 12. She always told us about being in the cotton fields back to as early as she could remember. Her first memories were walking along behind her mother pulling a sack. they would leave the babies in the shade with one of the older women and everyone else, adult and child, would pick cotton.