any former slaves and minorities were uneducated and impoverished. This system continued the workers in the routine of cotton cultivation under rigid supervision. Most croppers worked under the close direction of the landlord, and he market the crop and kept accounts. Normally, in return for their work they received a share of the money realized ( "sharecropping" par.1). When the Chandlers
             went to town they waited for passing hillbillies to relieve and help them pick the 80 acres of fresh cotton they had owned on their land. The Spruills had come down from the hills in search of work, all six of them. On the same day Mexicans had arrived on a bus in search
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