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Word: commonlaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins. Said Sheriff Dogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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