The semicircle of shanty shacks contained sleeping cots, except for one, inside which was a still… The sharecroppers were divided into campsites, this one for white men and the other for white women and families.
The sharecroppers lived north of that rutabaga field in a little circle of shacks, each one just a bed and a stove, cluttered up with refuse and remnants of a sinful life. They got buckets of water for bathing and whatnot, and they ain’t need no electricity. Only one sharecropper was there right now, the rest of them off harvesting hops for the homemade hooch bubbling away in one of the shacks.
From Jeb the Farmboy