Picking Cotton
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Picking Cotton
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"Picking Cotton" is one of Erskine Caldwell's earlier short stories, included in We Are the Living (1933), conspicuous for its humorous treatment of the theme—highly controversial, and illegal in a lot of the United States at the time of writing—of inter-racial sex. The story begins with a detailed description of working conditions during the cotton-picking season, on Donnie Williams' 500-acre (2.0 km2) farm. Workers prefer the Williamses to other farmers, despite the fact that they pay thirty f
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1933 short story by Erskine Caldwell
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