Rapid transit in southern Mississippi. [Large group of children on an oxcart.]

Distinguished southerners, grinding cane. [Children chewing sugar cane on the porch.]

We'se done all dis's Mornin'." [Girls with basket of cotton in the field.]

We'se done all dis's Mornin'." Picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation.

We'se done all dis's Mornin'." Picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation.

Colored convalescent soldiers resting after a march, at Aiken's Landing, James River, Va.