Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.

Acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson traces the history of the cotton industry in America through the centuries, from colonial times to the middle of the twentieth century. Through oral histories, she captures the voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry, while her compelling prose lends poignancy, humor and sometimes sorrow to the narratives of the slaves who toiled in the South, the poor sharecroppers who...