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| The Cotton Field Photo Credit: Shawn Escoffery Documentary and travel photographer Shawn Escoffery took this photograph. Shawn has traveled the world taking photographs of people and places. I was excited he chose to travel to the Mississippi Delta with . |
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
The Cotton Fields in the Mississippi Delta
Friday, April 9, 2021
Negro Baptizing in the Tangipahoa River
Baptizing's are held in the river, where sometimes as many as one hundred Negroes are baptized in one way. Negro preacher and about ten or twelve elders from an aisle for them to pass on down to the baptismal hole, while several hundred on the bank sing, "I am going down to Jordan to be baptized.
Bibliography:
Mississippi Department of Archives 1902-1907. WPA
Source Material for Mississippi History Pike County, Vol. 57, Part 2
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