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The Shields-Ethridge Farm: The End of a Way of Life

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Literacy and Language ArtsSocial Studies

1. To describe the role cotton farming played in the South after the Civil War; 2. To explain the work sharecroppers did throughout the year to produce a cotton crop; 3. To identify some of the factors that brought about the end of the sharecropping system in upland Georgia; 4. To research agricultural change in the local community and to plan an exhibit based on such research.

Recommended level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

1. Cotton Farming in the Post-Civil War South

2. The Sharecropping System: Work and Daily Life

3. The End of Sharecropping and Researching Agricultural Change