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Local 15 union members at the Cigar Factory, Charleston, South Carolina, detail image from FTA News, March 1948, courtesy of South Carolina Historical Society.

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Page from Union News, Local 15 union newspaper, featuring a photograph of Isaiah Bennett, July 1952, courtesy of Avery Research Center.

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Selection from an illustration and description of Baga rice cultivation from log by Captain Samuel Gamble on a slave ship Sandown, 1793-94, courtesy of National Maritime Museum.

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Selection from interview with Lucia Cordero by Marina Lopez, 20 November 2013, courtesy of The Citadel Oral History Program, Lowcountry Digital Library. Clip from original interview minutes 16:11-27:15.

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Strikers gathered outside a mill, with support of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Greensboro, Georgia, 1941, courtesy ofLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Swamp conversion to inland rice fields, ca. 2000s, courtesy of Samuel B. Hilliard.

The Local 15 union newsletter, FTA Vanguard, urging workers to join Local 15 to combat poor working conditions and low wages, July 18, 1947, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of South Carolina Historical Society.

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"Model kitchen," detail from The American Woman's Home, by Catharine Beecher and Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1869.

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"Samuel Williams Views" in Indianapolis Recorder, Samuel Williams, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 28,1915.

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"Just arrived...Pheasants, grouse, and capons," advertisement by Nat Fuller in theCharleston Courier, December 10, 1856, courtesy ofAmerica's Historical Newspapers.

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