They came there from a hundred places, as close as the Georgia piney woods, as far as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. Then, early in the spring, when there was no more work in South Florida's fields, some of them came to the lettuce fields of Castle Hayne. (Part 14 of my "Working Lives" series.)
Agricultural Labor
In the Soybean Fields & Factories of Edgecombe County, 1942
Soybeans have been one of Eastern North Carolina's most important crops for more than a century, but these photographs are the only historical images I have ever seen of how workers turned them into the oil and meal that was, and still is, so much a part of daily life in the U.S.
David Cecelski 