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Frank Gaines, a sharecropper for more than 40 years, spends a little time working in his vegetable garden, but for the most part he sits on the porch with nothing much to do.

A group of basketball players pause in Parson's Cove, AL. Some of the last black cotton sharecropper families lived in Parson's Cove.

An old preacher smiles as best as he can.

Close up of Margaret Ricketts' feet. She has not had a new pair of shoes for years. Although she and her son live in a house with electricity, they have never lived in a home with plumbing.

Margaret Ricketts as she appeared in 1988 after being sick for several months. She said, 'As long as I have my Bible and my son, I'm going to be OK.'

Sonny Gudger, the youngest son of Annie Mae and George Gudger, who were profiled in the original book. Sonny owns a jewelry store in Americus, GA, and is doing better than almost any of the offspring.

Family on the porch of their trailer.

Detail--Ethel washing clothes.

Ethel, the widow of Bud Woods Jr., washes clothes behind a shack she rents for $10 a month.

A young man who had been turtle hunting in a swamp near the Mississippi/Alabama border.