That's a good picture. I assume it is a colorized photo from the 19th century?
That's a good picture. I assume it is a colorized photo from the 19th century?
No doubt. Also assume this is the work of "factors" who first helped finance farmers plantings, then later purchased their bales of cotton for transport to big cities & export markets.
Such "factors" might have been Northerners, as might be the steamboat owners, but they might just as well have been Southern neighbors of local planters.