Oral History with Jonathan Abbott
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Oral history from Eastern Arkansas discussing interactions with Bracero workers.
Excerpt Transcript
Well, it was a transitional stage when all this was going on, mechanization was coming on. It’s what I’ve observed. And it seemed like that what I understood from different people that the local farmers were happy to get them. As I remember the way this was always pretty well, the same as if they was local people. In other words, you might see a field and it would have local laborers, and the transported laborers in the same field.
Questions
Why did Arkansas farmers employ Bracero workers?
What were the impacts of the Bracero program on the Stallings farm and the workers who worked there?
Citations
Brady Banta, “Jonathan Abbott,” Bracero History Archive, accessed January 19, 2024, https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/3072.