MOUNDVILLE, UNITED STATES
The Wider Image: The Legacy of "King Cotton" in the American South
Trees surround an abandoned and decaying tenant farmer's, or sharecropper's, house in Moundville, Alabama October 25, 2015. Cotton farmer Shep Morris describes the decaying tenant homes of former farm employees as "scattered throughout the cotton belt and slowly fading away." In the southern states of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas, once the heart of cotton country, growers expect to harvest some of their smallest crops since the year after the U.S. Civil War ended, according to the oldest government data available. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY PICTURE 2 OF 28 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "THE LEGACY OF 'KING COTTON' IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH" SEARCH "KING COTTON" FOR ALL IMAGES