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The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.

Jacob Lawrence ( between 1940 and 1941 )

Two black tenant farmers bring crops to be weighed to a white foreman.
  • Period Twentieth-Century
  • Materials Casein tempera on hardboard
  • Object Number 1160
  • Dimensions 12 x 18 in.; 30.48 x 45.72 cm.
  • Credit Line Acquired 1942; © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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