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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

• Former president Jimmy Carter wrote about his life as a boy in Depression Era Georgia in 2001, focusing in particular on the institution of sharecropping and race relations in his hometown of Plains.
• Does Carter think that sharecropping was an inherently bad system of agriculture?
• What was an aspect of the system that Carter admits kept most tenants in a state of peonage?
• How would you describe the life of black sharecroppers as detailed by Carter?
• What happened in September 1940 when the black peanut pickers of Plains decided to “strike” to get more money? Does this outcome surprise you?